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Barbara Jordan Quotes
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
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. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. Theyll recognize that. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. Hes just incapable of it. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in We, the people. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. Its 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 Quotes
Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Lets 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. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Life is too large to hang out a sign: For Men Only. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
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. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
The imperative is to define what is right and do it. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
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 Quotes
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. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three oclock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. - Barbara Jordan Quotes
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 Quotes
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