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Barbara Jordan

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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Excuse Philosophy Responsibility
…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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Ends Immigration People
The earth is bread we take and eat.
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Bread Earth Eat Take
A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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Destiny Equality Peace
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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Common Responsibility Share
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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Integrity Peace War
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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Education Keys Political
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Inspirational People
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Mills Running Wanted
I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.
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Mills Persons Running
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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Feelings Immigration Reality
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Community Form Kind
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
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America Cities Groups
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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Believe Compassion Women
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Government Sports Stakes
[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.
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Emotional Immigration Issues

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