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I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. ↗

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

#community #future #national #national community #our

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#attempting #fulfill #inflation #larger #larger scale

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#destiny #down #find #founders #government

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

#become #belief #common #community #done

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent. ↗

— Brian Jordan

#career #decision #get #had #healthy

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#life #miserable #really #tried #who

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#living #real #right #separated #which

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin. ↗

— Eason Jordan

#information #innocent #innocent people #journalistic #killed

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope. ↗