Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
BARBARA JORDAN…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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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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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
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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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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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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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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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If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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