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Barbara Jordan Quotes: It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
         

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.


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



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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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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.



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



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



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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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