More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
BARBARA JORDANWe 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.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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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.
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it’s men who must be liberated in this country.
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Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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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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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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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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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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