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Barbara Jordan

"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

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"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

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"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
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"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."
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"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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"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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"The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems."
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"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."
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"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us."
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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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"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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