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Barbara C. Jordan

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

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • in Charles L. Saunders, "Barbara Jordan," Ebony ()

  • “What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • speech, Harvard University ()

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

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • speech, Harvard University ()

  • “When do any of us ever do enough?”

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • in Senior Scholastic ()

  • “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.”

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World ()

  • “I never wanted to be run of the mill.”

    • Barbara C. Jordan,
    • in The New York Times ()

  • “The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.”

    • Barbara C. Jordan

Barbara C. Jordan, U.S. lawyer, member of Congress, educator

(1936 - 1996)

Full name: Barbara Charline Jordan.