Barbara Jordan Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  Order, Law, People

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

• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  Equality, Keys, Creating

• We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Together, Done

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

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Destiny, America, Community

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

• I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Kind, Form

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

• 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.

  Barbara Jordan

  People, Community, Our Future

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

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