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Barbara Jordan

"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."

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"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds."

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"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

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"Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes."

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"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."

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"We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children."

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"Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation."

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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

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"Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth."

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"It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here."

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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent."

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Barbara Jordan
"I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community."

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

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Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Jordan
"I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people.""

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Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Jordan
"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans."

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Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Jordan
"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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