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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.

Barbara Jordan

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
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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Emotional Immigration Issues
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Government Sports Stakes
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
BARBARA JORDAN

Excuse Philosophy Responsibility
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
BARBARA JORDAN

Integrity Peace War
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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Destiny Equality Peace
The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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Court Lasts Protection
Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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Hanging Life Men Out
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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Authority Believe People
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Community Form Kind
When do any of us ever do enough?
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Any Effort Enough Hard Work
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
BARBARA JORDAN

People Ties Voice
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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Feelings Texas Want
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
BARBARA JORDAN

Justice Peace Ubuntu
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Believe Positive Reality

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