Edward Brooke Quotes

• Cuando la gente trata la corrupción como una parte rutinaria del proceso, tenemos algo mucho peor que una fechoría o un fallo moral. Tenemos un cáncer político que genera cinismo sobre el gobierno democrático e infecta a toda la sociedad.

  Edward Brooke

  Cancer, Government, People

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• 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

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• Toda mi vida ha estado dedicada a derribar barreras, a encontrar puntos en común.

  Edward Brooke

  Common, Breaking Down, Barriers

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• To stand still is to regress.

  Edward Brooke

  Fotogramas

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• Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

  Edward Brooke

  Race, People, Labels

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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.

  Edward Brooke

  Years, Water, Victory

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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.

  Edward Brooke

  White, Rights, Years

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• Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

  Edward Brooke

  Party, Moving, Tea

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• Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

  Edward Brooke

  America, Rejected, Courses

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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 Brooke

  Party, Republican, Feels

  "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.

  Edward Brooke

  Country, Blood, America

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• The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

  Edward Brooke

  Needs, Forget, Congress

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• In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

  Edward Brooke

  Games, Ladders

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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.

  Edward Brooke

  Helping, Made, Wanted

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• Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

  Edward Brooke

  Political, Bugs, Loses

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