"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."
-Barbara Jordan
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"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.“
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"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."
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"We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that."
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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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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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