America Quote by Murray Kempton

It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the…

— Murray Kempton

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

— Murray Kempton

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends…

— Murray Kempton

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done…

— Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

— Murray Kempton

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a…

— Murray Kempton

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

— Murray Kempton

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

— Murray Kempton

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of…

— Murray Kempton

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

— Murray Kempton

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly…

— Murray Kempton