Quotes by Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan

“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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September

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

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Immigration

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

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Shaping The Future

Willing

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

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

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Equality

Peace

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

Freedom

Inspirational

Memorable

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. They’ll recognize that.

Believe

Mistake

Party

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.

Creating

Equality

Keys

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.

Believe

Compassion

Women

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.’

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People

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Cost

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Creating

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Done

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Enough

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Quotes by Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan

“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.”

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

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

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

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

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. They’ll recognize that.

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.

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.

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.’

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