Edward Brooke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Edward Brooke

#Cancer #Government #People
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
-- Edward Brooke

#Race #Parent #Mind
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
-- Edward Brooke

#Common #Breaking Down #Barriers
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.
-- Edward Brooke

#Years #Water #Victory
Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.
-- Edward Brooke

#Race #People #Labels
To stand still is to regress.
-- Edward Brooke

#Stills
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.
-- Edward Brooke

#White #Rights #Years
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
-- Edward Brooke

#Party #Moving #Tea
You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.
-- Edward Brooke

#Party #Republican #Feels
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.
-- Edward Brooke

#Country #Blood #America
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
-- Edward Brooke

#Games #Ladders
I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.
-- Edward Brooke

#Helping #Made #Wanted
The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.
-- Edward Brooke

#Needs #Forget #Congress
Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.
-- Edward Brooke

#America #Rejected #Courses
Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.
-- Edward Brooke

#Political #Bugs #Loses

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