Barbara Jordan Quotes About Community

• 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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  Barbara Jordan

  People   Community   Our Future  

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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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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  Barbara Jordan

  Community   Together   Done  

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

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  Barbara Jordan

  Order   Law   People  

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

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  Barbara Jordan

  Destiny   America   Community  

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

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  Barbara Jordan

  Community   Kind   Form  

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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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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  Barbara Jordan

  Equality   Keys   Creating  

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