Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
BARBARA JORDAN
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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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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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
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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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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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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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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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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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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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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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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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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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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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