If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
BARBARA JORDAN
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.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
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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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When do any of us ever do enough?
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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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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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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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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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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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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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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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