#mo

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#call #chills #feel #first #first time

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#common good #each #formed #good #nation

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 #hold #more #must #officials

Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#democratic party #history #looked #many #nation

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

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

— Frank Jordan

#emotions #hope #needs #our #personal

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. ↗

— June Jordan

#become #begin #love #love yourself #most

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. ↗

— June Jordan

#exist #important #mercy #most #other

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. ↗

— June Jordan

#about #being #being honest #come #comfortable

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each