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This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. ↗

— Star Jones

#being #believe #country #courtroom #fairness

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#mischief #past #prospered #them #virtue

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#got #you #yourself

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #believe #between #closed #day

Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #believe #each #even #heart

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

#amendment #been #court #court decision #decision

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#must #officials #produce #promise #propose

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