Barbara Jordan Quotes

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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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  Peace, Ubuntu, Majority

  Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

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  We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Acceptance, People

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  Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

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  Education, Inspirational Life, Holiday

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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  My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

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  Passion, Decision, Constitution

  Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee

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• It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

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  People, Privilege, Philanthropy

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• 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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  Responsibility, Common, Share

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• 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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  Cities, America, Groups

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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  Education, Keys, Political

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• What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

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  Peace, Integrity, War

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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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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  Texas, Feelings, Want

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• Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.

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  Immigration, Should, Credibility

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• There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

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  Order, Law, People

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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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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  Food, Anger, Thinking

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• If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

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  Way, Resolve, Ifs

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• "We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."

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  People, September, Documents

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

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  Inspirational, Freedom, Memorable

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• 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.

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  Democracy, Today, Constitution

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

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  Country, Believe, People

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• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

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  Inspirational, Character, Philanthropy

  Barbara Jordan, Elspeth D. Rostow, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin (1986). “The Great Society: A Twenty Year Critique”, Univ Texas at Austin Lyndon B

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• One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.

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  Immigration, Benefits, Illegal

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

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  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

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  Men, Life Is, Hanging Out

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• The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

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  Lasts, Protection, Court

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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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  Hard Work, Adversity, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk". Book edited Larry Chang and Roderick Terry, p. 117, 2007.

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

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  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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