What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
BARBARA JORDAN
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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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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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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“We, the people.” It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that “We, the people.”
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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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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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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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