Edward Brooke quotes
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“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”
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“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”
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“My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.”
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“Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.”
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“Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.”
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“I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.”
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“Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.”
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“You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.”
-- Edward BrookeSource : "Edward W Brooke, first black man to win popular election to US Senate, dies" by the Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2015.
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“America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.”
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“In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.”
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“I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.”
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“The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.”
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“Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.”
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“Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.”
-- Edward Brooke
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