The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
BARBARA JORDANEducation remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker’s child to miss school in order to earn…just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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When do any of us ever do enough?
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It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
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We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
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