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Quote by Barbara Jordan
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. – Barbara Jordan

Other quotes by Barbara Jordan

We call ourselves public servants but Ill 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. – Barbara Jordan

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good
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Barbara Jordan
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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. – Barbara Jordan

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Government
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Barbara Jordan
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. – Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise

Category:
Black History

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. – W.E.B. DuBois

Category:
Black History

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. – Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, advice to all black youth, c.1967

Category:
Black History

Random Quotes

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesnt have to be white, and the other one doesnt have to be the ethnic sidekick. Were way over that. And I think its happening in society, too. – Roger Ebert

Category:
movies

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Self

A short absence is the safest. – Ovid

Category:
Absence

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Vacations