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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. "

Edward Brooke

Man

Know

Black

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

" 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. "

" I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center. "

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Party

Republican

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan. "

" I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats. "

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

" 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 was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Edward Brooke

Race

My Own

" Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine. "

" Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure. "

" I had made my reputation on integrity. "

" 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. "

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

Edward Brooke

Left

Party

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

" 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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Writing

Time

" I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one. "

Edward Brooke

Rights

Civil Rights

" In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party. "

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

Edward Brooke

Anything

Out

" My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country. "

" I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia. "

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