Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton
James Murray Kemptonwas an influential 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."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth16 December 1917
CountryUnited States of America
Murray Kempton quotes about
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.