7 Quotes by Jack Newfield

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

I don’t fight for nobody else because Don King has made me money. Yet I hear people saying Don King is exploiting me. I made $15.5 million with Don. How would you like to be exploited and make $15.5 million?

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone’s vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.