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It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

Barbara Jordan

“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
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Mills Running Wanted
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Common Responsibility Share
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 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
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.’
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Mistake People Years
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.
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Citizens Cost Generations
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
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
…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
When do any of us ever do enough?
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Any Effort Enough Hard Work
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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Creating Equality Keys Tolerance
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
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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Justice Peace Ubuntu
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
BARBARA JORDAN

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