Edward Brooke

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters…

— Edward Brooke

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season,…

— Edward Brooke

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

— Edward Brooke

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

— Edward Brooke

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

— Edward Brooke

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You…

— Edward Brooke

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

— Edward Brooke

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

— Edward Brooke

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

— Edward Brooke

To stand still is to regress.

— Edward Brooke

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

— Edward Brooke

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

— Edward Brooke

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in…

— Edward Brooke

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

— Edward Brooke

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

— Edward Brooke