A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation. – Barbara Jordan
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. – Barbara Jordan
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. – Barbara Jordan
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan
True revolutionaries are like God – they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. – Barbara Grizzuti Harrison