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Murray Kempton
American journalist (1917-1997)
James Murray Kemptonwas an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.
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About the Murray Kempton
James Murray Kemptonwas an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al. Reprinted, 1997, with new subtitle The Trial of the Panther 21. He won a Pulitzer Prizein 1985 “for witty and insightful reflection on public issues in 1984 and throughout a distinguished career.”
9 Quotes by Murray Kempton
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who’s down.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Murray KemptonAmerican journalist (1917-1997)