Murray Kempton
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"James Murray Kempton" was an influential United States/American journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1985 and won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award in List of winners of the National Book Award#Current/category Contemporary Affairs for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.

[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1974.html "National Book Awards – 1974"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09. There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.

(Its 1997 reprint was subtitled The Trial of the Panther 21.)

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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.

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.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

He is fresh and everyone else is tired.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.