107 Quotes by Barbara Jordan

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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.

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.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.