Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

- Barbara Jordan

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensi…

- Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, s…

- Barbara Jordan

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

- Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

- Barbara Jordan

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that i…

- Barbara Jordan

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how …

- Barbara Jordan

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transc…

- Barbara Jordan

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that…

- Barbara Jordan