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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

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  Running, Mills, Persons

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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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• When do any of us ever do enough?

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  Effort, Enough

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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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• I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

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  Life, Motivational, Morning

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• I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

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  Women, Believe, Compassion

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