Politics Quotes

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics. Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.