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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.

Barbara Jordan

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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America Community Destiny
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
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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America Citizens Want
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Belief People View
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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Education Holiday Inspirational Life
“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
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
If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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Change Dissatisfied Resolve Way
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
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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Future Government Inspirational
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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Freedom Inspirational Memorable
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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Community Our Future People
If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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Games Knows Play
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
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
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.
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Believe Compassion Women

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