Quote by Barbara Jordan
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan

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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

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Future
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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

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In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. – Dick Gregory, 1964

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I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat. – Stephen Vincent Benet

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. – Rosalia de Castro

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