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Murray Kempton Quotes
Brief author info: Murray Kempton (1917-1997) American journalist.
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
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 time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.
To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
Diplomacy Quote
There are times when even the greatest tactician in diplomatic cunning is outclassed in his own game. It is then that he discovers that all that he thought he had gained is but loss, and that what is left of national honor and dignity is but the shadow of an illustrious past that is gone forever, or of a potentially great future that will never come.
Peace Quote
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Love Quote
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
Friend Quote
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Family Quote
You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.
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