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Barbara Charline Jordan war eine US-amerikanische Hochschullehrerin und Politikerin der Demokratischen Partei, die einige Jahre den Bundesstaat Texas im US-Repräsentantenhaus vertrat, auf der Democratic National Convention 1976 als erste Afroamerikanerin eine Grundsatzrede hielt und 1994 mit der Presidential Medal of Freedom ausgezeichnet wurde. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. Februar 1936 – 17. Januar 1996
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“My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”

Statement before the House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon (25 July 1974). (See External links)

“What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”

Commencement Address, Harvard University (16 June 1977), as cited in Let me tell you what I've learned https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0292787901: Texas Wisewomen Speak, PJ Pierce, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 16

“You need a core inside you—a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.”

Scott Williams, “Jordan Praises Stockman,” Daily Texan (23 November 1981), as cited in Let me tell you what I've learned https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0292787901: Texas Wisewomen Speak, PJ Pierce, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 17

“Those who hold the public trust must adhere to the highest ethical standards there are. The job requires it, and the public must demand it.”

Remarks at the University of Texas at Austin (22 February 1991), as cited in Let me tell you what I've learned https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0292787901: Texas Wisewomen Speak, PJ Pierce, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 17

“It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.”

Speaking as chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Quoted by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) speaking before the U.S. House of Representatives “Tribute to the Late Hon. Barbara Jordan,” Congressional Record (24 January 1996), as cited in Let me tell you what I've learned https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0292787901: Texas Wisewomen Speak, PJ Pierce, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 17

“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.”

As quoted in Wisdom For the Soul of Black Folk https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0977339157, ed. Larry Chang & Roderick Terry, Gnosophia Publishers (2007), p. 117

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