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"And trying to work on ways of providing opportunity for low-income people – to educate themselves and to rise and achieve economic security for their families."
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Roberta AchtenbergWell, I loved being a County Supervisor, and I love the challenge to d — Roberta Achtenberg
"Well, I loved being a County Supervisor, and I love the challenge to deal, locally, with the issues that are of greatest concern. I mean urban issues are my passion. Trying to make our cities work."
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Roberta Achtenberg is an American attorney and civil rights advocate who served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was previously assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first openly lesbian or gay public official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the United States Sena
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"The ability to be in public life has been enormously positive to our movement, to our people and being able to contribute has been very gratifying."
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"I think that people who don’t remember when it was any other way may not understand how extraordinary this is. It’s my fond hope that we won’t be going back to the way it use to be (laughing). Or else people would get a rude reminder of an era that I hope is gone for good."
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