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I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Jordan

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
BARBARA JORDAN

Democratic Immigration Responsibility
The stakes … are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
BARBARA JORDAN

Government Sports Stakes
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Feelings Texas Want
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
BARBARA JORDAN

Decision Emotional Passion
Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
BARBARA JORDAN

Party People Political
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
BARBARA JORDAN

Constitution Democracy Today
I never wanted to be run of the mill.
BARBARA JORDAN

Mills Running Wanted
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.
BARBARA JORDAN

Games Play Political
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Believe Compassion Women
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
BARBARA JORDAN

Believe Country People
If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.
BARBARA JORDAN

Change Dissatisfied Resolve Way
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
BARBARA JORDAN

Majority Peace Ubuntu
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.
BARBARA JORDAN

Erode Men Want
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
BARBARA JORDAN

Common Responsibility Share
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
BARBARA JORDAN

Community Form Kind
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
BARBARA JORDAN

Character Inspirational

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

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