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"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."
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Barbara JordanThere is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or membe — Barbara Jordan
"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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Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician, attorney, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first southern African-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901, alongsid
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"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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"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."
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"What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise."
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"You need a core inside you—a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable."
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"Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. ‘We the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that ‘We, the people.’ 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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