Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
BARBARA JORDANFairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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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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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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Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
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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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“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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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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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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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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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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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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