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
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My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.
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I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
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I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
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I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.
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I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.
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Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.
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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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Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
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The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
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I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.
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I always believed there would be an African-American president. It was something I'd dreamed about, thought about, but certainly did not believe would happen in my lifetime.
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When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.
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President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.