Best quotes by Barbara Jordan on America

Checkout quotes by Barbara Jordan on America

• ‟ What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

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• ‟ The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

  - Barbara Jordan
  

• ‟ 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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• ‟ I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

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• ‟ Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

  - Barbara Jordan