The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
BARBARA JORDANDo not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
More Barbara Jordan Quotes
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
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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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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
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…for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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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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We 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.
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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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Life is too large to hang out a sign: ‘For Men Only.
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We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
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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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What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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