Barbara Jordan

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

— Barbara Jordan

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

— Barbara Jordan

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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. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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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. He's just incapable of it. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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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

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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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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. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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