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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

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three oclock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. – Barbara Jordan

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Society
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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

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. – Billie Holiday

Category:
Black History

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. – Booker T. Washington

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Black History

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. – Countess of Blessington

Category:
Black History

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas

Category:
Black History

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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. – W. Winwood Reade

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Because Im the author of my screenplays I know what Im looking for. Its true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but its also a question of working with patience and love. – Michael Haneke

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Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius

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