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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.

— Barbara Jordan

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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.

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.

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