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Barbara Jordan Quotes

1936–1996 United States

Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator and politician who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

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What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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.

This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.

Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.

You need a core inside you—a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.

My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Jordan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.