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Barbara Jordan Quotes: 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.
         

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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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.



We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.



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.

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.



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.

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.



Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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

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



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 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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I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.



Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.



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I got my Backstage Bistro Award, I should just retire. You know, that's a good question and I guess it's really really different for everybody.



Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.



If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.



What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.

What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.




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