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Barbara Jordan Quotes: What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
         

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.


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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.



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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.



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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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For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.



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If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.



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