Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.
BARBARA JORDANLet us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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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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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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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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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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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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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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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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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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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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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.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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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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