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.’
BARBARA JORDANA government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.
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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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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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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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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.
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If you’re going to play the game [politics] properly, you’d better know every rule.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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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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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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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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