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

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

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.

From Edward Brooke

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

From Edward Brooke

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.

From Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

From Edward Brooke

You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.

From Edward Brooke

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.

From Edward Brooke

When I arrived in the Senate, the moderate so-called Rockefeller Republicans held the balance of power.

From Edward Brooke

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

From Edward Brooke

Edward Brooke

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