Edward Brooke People Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can't serve just the Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

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.