I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
BARBARA JORDANLife is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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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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When do any of us ever do enough?
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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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The earth is bread we take and eat.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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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 our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.
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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.
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If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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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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“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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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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