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“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.”
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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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 imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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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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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.
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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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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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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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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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.
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
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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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