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 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. – Barbara Jordan

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Future
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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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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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Black History

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. – Rosa Parks

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Black History

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

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Jackson went from the professors chair to the officers saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. – Daniel H. Hill

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teacher

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. – Jeremy Collier

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Courage

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. – Arabic Proverb

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Silence