Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
BARBARA JORDANHow 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.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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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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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 earth is bread we take and eat.
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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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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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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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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 heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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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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