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Barbara Jordan Quotes: We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
         

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.


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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.



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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The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.




Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.



Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.



Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.



Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.



Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.



I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

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I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.

I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.




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