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

Barbara Jordan

#Order Quotes #Law Quotes #People Quotes

“You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.”
“One who is at peace can draw good from everything.”
“Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.”
“Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.”
“Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.”
“It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.”
“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”

Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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