We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
BARBARA JORDANLife is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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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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Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance — the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
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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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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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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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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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I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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