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

Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
BARBARA JORDAN

Excuse Philosophy Responsibility
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
BARBARA JORDAN

Education Keys Political
It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
BARBARA JORDAN

Democratic Immigration Responsibility
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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Emotional Immigration Issues
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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Adversity Hard People Work
I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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Feelings Texas Want
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’
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Mistake People Years
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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Attempt Country People Promise
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Decision Emotional Passion
What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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Balance Government Ideas
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Common Responsibility Share
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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Caring People Teaching
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
BARBARA JORDAN

Integrity Peace War
“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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Documents People September
If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
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Change Dissatisfied Resolve Way
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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Destiny Government Republic
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
I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: ‘What is my exciting thing for today?’ Then, I do the day. Don’t ask me about tomorrow.
BARBARA JORDAN

Life Morning Motivational
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

People Ties Voice
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
BARBARA JORDAN

Majority Peace Ubuntu
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Giving Party People
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
BARBARA JORDAN

Community Done Together
If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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Games Knows Play
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
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Games Play Political
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Politics Produce Promise
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
BARBARA JORDAN

Justice Peace Ubuntu
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Government Sports Stakes

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