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.
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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…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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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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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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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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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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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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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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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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