Edward Brooke Quotes
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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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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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My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
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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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Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
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My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
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Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.
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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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To stand still is to regress.
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Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.
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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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You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.
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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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Edward Brooke
- Born: October 26, 1919
- Died: January 3, 2015
- Occupation: Former United States Senator
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