Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
BARBARA JORDANThink what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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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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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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We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
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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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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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[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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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 have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
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I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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When do any of us ever do enough?
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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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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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