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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 must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. – Barbara Jordan

Category:
Future
Author
Barbara Jordan
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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

Category:
good
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Barbara Jordan
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

Category:
Black History

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. – Carter Woodson, 1926

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Black History

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

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Black History

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

Random Quotes

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. – Horace Mann

Category:
Helping

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community. – Adam Schiff

Category:
power

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West

Category:
Education

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. – Bobby Jindal

Category:
communication