One thing that has taught me to dislike politics is the observation that, as soon as any person or thing becomes the subject of political discussion,… - Booker T. Washington

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The reputation that I made as a speaker during this campaign induced a number of persons to make an earnest effort to get me to enter political life, but I refused, still believing that I could find other service which would prove of more permanent value to my race. Even then I had a strong feeling that what our people most needed was to get a foundation in education, industry, and property, and for this I felt that they could better afford to strive than for political preferment. As for my individual self, it appeared to me to be reasonably certain that I could succeed in political life, but I had a feeling that it would be a rather selfish kind of success — - individual success at the cost of failing to do my duty in assisting in laying a foundation for the masses

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.