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

— Barbara Jordan

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Source: Commencement Address, Harvard University (16 June 1977), as cited in Let me tell you what I've learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak, PJ Pierce, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 16
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