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...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
Barbara Jordan
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Barbara Jordan
Age: 59 †
Born: 1936
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: January 17
American Politician
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Houston
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Barbara Charline Jordan
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
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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.
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I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.
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One thing is very clear: Illegal immigrants are not entitled to benefits.
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How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
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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.
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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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.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.
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If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
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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.
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I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.
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We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
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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.
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