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Barbara Jordan

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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."

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

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"For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future."

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"More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future."

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

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"For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future."

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"More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future."

-Barbara Jordan

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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."

-Barbara Jordan

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"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation."

-Barbara Jordan

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"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

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"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."

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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."

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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 call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good."

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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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"We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny."

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"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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"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party."

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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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"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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"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done."

-Barbara Jordan

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