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Barbara Jordan

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

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"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."

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

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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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"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

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

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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