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.
BARBARA JORDANWe, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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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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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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Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other …Fairness treats everbody the same.
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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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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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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 we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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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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“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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A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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