The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
BARBARA JORDANWe are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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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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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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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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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It’s tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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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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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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We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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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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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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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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We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
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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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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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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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