Barbara Jordan Quotes

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

[It is] one of the most complex and emotional issues of out time.

For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.