"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority."
"Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."
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Source: Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books
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