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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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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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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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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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Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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