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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan

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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Citizens Ideas Suffering
If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
BARBARA JORDAN

Games Knows Play
When do any of us ever do enough?
BARBARA JORDAN

Any Effort Enough Hard Work
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
BARBARA JORDAN

Distinction Immigration Law
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
BARBARA JORDAN

Innovation Order Party
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
BARBARA JORDAN

Government Sports Stakes
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They’ll recognize that.
BARBARA JORDAN

Believe Mistake Party
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
BARBARA JORDAN

Common Responsibility Share
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
BARBARA JORDAN

Education Keys Political
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
BARBARA JORDAN

Emotional Immigration Issues
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance — the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
BARBARA JORDAN

Creating Equality Keys Tolerance
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
BARBARA JORDAN

Character Inspirational
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Anger Food Thinking
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

Constitution Democracy Today
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Believe Compassion Women
We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker’s child to miss school in order to earn…just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
BARBARA JORDAN

Children Order School

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