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.
BARBARA JORDANEducation remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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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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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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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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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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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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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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How 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.
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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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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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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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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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“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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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