Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke IIIwas an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts, defeating former Massachusetts governor Democrat Endicott Peabody in a landslide. He served for two terms, and was defeated by Paul Tsongas in 1978...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 October 1919
CountryUnited States of America
stills
To stand still is to regress.
helping made wanted
I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.
america rejected left
Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.
games ladders
In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.
country america blood
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.
moving party tea
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
years water victory
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.
party republican feels
You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.
years white rights
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.
race people labels
Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.
common breaking-down barriers
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
parent mind world
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
cancer government people
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.