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Barbara Jordan

"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

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"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

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"You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement."

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"But men have loved darkness rather than light."

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"Light has come to the world and men loved darkness rather than light."

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"Choice is always the driving factor in life."

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"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

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"Every choice has the potential to change the course of a life."

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"Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament."

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"If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it."

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"Priorities are simple to establish, what is desire and what is necessity?"

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"I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision."

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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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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."
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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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"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
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"Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that."
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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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"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more."
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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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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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