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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.

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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Lawyer
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University Teacher
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Houston
Texas
Barbara Charline Jordan
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.
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Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.
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I never wanted to be run of the mill.
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The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.
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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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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
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...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
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I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.
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If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
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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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There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.
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We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.
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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 believe that the people are the source of all governmental power that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
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