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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: ‘What is my exciting thing for today?’ Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.

Barbara Jordan

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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America Citizens Want
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Backgrounds Made Party
The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Bread Earth Eat Take
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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Believe Compassion Women
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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Adversity Hard People Work
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Decision Emotional Passion
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational People
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.
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Believe Mistake Party
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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Majority Peace Ubuntu
When do any of us ever do enough?
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Any Effort Enough Hard Work
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
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Credibility Immigration Policy Sentence
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
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Boards Fairness Requirements
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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Citizens Ideas Suffering
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
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People Philanthropy Privilege
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.
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Country Guiding Principles Ideas

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: ‘What is my exciting thing for today?’ Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.

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