Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, August 20, 2014 – Barbara Jordan
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, August 20, 2014 – Barbara Jordan
“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.”
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“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”
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“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”
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“For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.”
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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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“I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.”
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“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”
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“If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.”
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“Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.”
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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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“More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.”
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“The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.”
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“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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“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 are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.”
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“We call ourselves public servants but I’ll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.”
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“We must exchange the philosophy of excuse – what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.”
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“What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.”
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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.”
Wikipedia: Barbara Jordan
