Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes

• All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

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  Issues

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• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

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  Air, Facts, Pollution

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• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

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  Issues, Perspective

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• I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

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  Losing, Feels

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

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  Anger, School, Differences

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• We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

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  Looks, Never Quit, Losing

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• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

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  America, People, Presidential

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• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

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  Race, Different, Quiet

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• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

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  Black, Vote, Activity

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• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

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  Sick, Obligation, Family Oriented

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• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

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  World, Said, Organize

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• Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

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  Children, Military, Kids

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• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

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  Country, People, Voting

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• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

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  Country, Children, Careers

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• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

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  Believe, Female, Wells

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• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

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  Running, Men, Community

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