Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
BARBARA JORDAN
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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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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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
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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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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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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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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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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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