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Jacob K. Javits

American Politician

Born: May 18, 1904

Died: Mar 7, 1986

Business Jew Life Remember Society Understood

Related authors: Alexander Hamilton Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Benjamin Franklin Bernie Sanders John F. Kerry Nancy Pelosi Robert Kennedy Shirley Chisholm

I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career. Jacob K. Javits

Life Son Remember Father Made Before Own Side Pants Month East Immigrants East Side City Plus My Own Small He New Boy York Orchard New York New York City Flat Janitor Rooms Lower Streets Career Jewish

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it. Jacob K. Javits

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ. Jacob K. Javits

Politician Say Writ Holy

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. Jacob K. Javits

Thinking Franklin Rather Than Teddy

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