Politics Quotes

I always tried to be correct,

not politically correct.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

A typical vice of American politics is

the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I stay out of politics because

if I begin thinking too much about politics,

I'll probably... drop writing children's books

and become a political cartoonist again.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

I want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless

if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.