24 Barbara Jordan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Barbara Jordan

American Politician

Born: Feb 21, 1936

Died: Jan 17, 1996

Community Future Nation National Party People

Related authors: Alexander Hamilton Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Benjamin Franklin Bernie Sanders John F. Kerry Nancy Pelosi Robert Kennedy Shirley Chisholm

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan

Great Will Become Nation Danger One Nation Collection City Seeking Faces Individual Instead Private Cease America Wants Suburb Interest Against Region Groups Each Satisfy

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

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. Barbara Jordan

Future Change Innovation Better Achieve Party Changing Our Circumstances Willing Must Better Future Discomfort Traditions Order Suffer Reject Adapt

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. Barbara Jordan

Education Key Political Both Economic Remains Empowerment

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan

Equality Black Power Call Brain Brain Power Green

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

Good People Simple Promise Very America Want

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

Future People Vision Strictly Press Release Ourselves Must Slogans More Provide Accountable Than Officials Hold Public Required Public Officials

We call ourselves public servants but I'll 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

Good You People Rest Example Nation Ourselves Tell Must Hypocritical Call Uphold Official Common Common Good Public Public Servants Servants Set

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition. 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

Future People National Community Our About National Community Search Present

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future. Barbara Jordan

Future We Cannot Uncertainty Cannot Flee

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.' Barbara Jordan

Me Mistake People Decision Interpretation Alexander Finally Out Somehow Through Court Felt Court Decision Hamilton George Been Years George Washington Left Amendment Just Process Many Included Washington