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  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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. Download This Image
  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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.
  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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.
  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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.
  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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.
  • Barbara Jordan Quote - 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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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable. Download This Image

    We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - I never wanted to be run of the mill. Download This Image

    I never wanted to be run of the mill.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - “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.” Download This Image

    “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.”

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources. Download This Image

    We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that. Download This Image

    Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance. Download This Image

    I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable. Download This Image

    Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Download This Image

    But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - 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.

    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.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - …for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process. Download This Image

    …for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. Download This Image

    A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’ Download This Image

    I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. Download This Image

    We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

    BARBARA JORDAN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Jordan Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 JORDAN