"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority."

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Source : Barbara Jordan, Max R. Sherman (2007). “Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth With Eloquent Thunder”

Barbara Jordan

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“I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.”
“I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.”
“It was so enticing from the beginning to be this woman who was entrenched in The Flash's world. She's not there to just tell him what a great job he's doing, she's also there to push him further and help him to be the best that he can be. She's often the first person to be a little bit skeptical of him, which is kind of nice. She really challenges him.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”
“I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.”
“We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.”
“I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.”
“I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.”

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