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Barbara Jordan

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
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Majority Peace Ubuntu
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Mills Persons Running
I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
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Caring People Teaching
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Character Inspirational
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: ‘What is my exciting thing for today?’ Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.
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Life Morning Motivational
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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Hanging Life Men Out
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Decision Emotional Passion
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Attempt Country People Promise
Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
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Credibility Immigration Policy Sentence
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Balance Government Ideas
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Government Sports Stakes
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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Community Done Together
The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Bread Earth Eat Take
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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Emotional Immigration Issues

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