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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Jordan

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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Community Done Together
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Mills Running Wanted
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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Attempt Country People Promise
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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Anger Food Thinking
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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Balance Government Ideas
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Backgrounds Made Party
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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Constitution Democracy Today
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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Believe Positive Reality
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.
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America Cities Groups
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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Believe Country People
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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Children Order School
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational People
One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Benefits Illegal Immigration
“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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Documents People September
…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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Ends Immigration People

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

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