Wednesday, July 7, 2010

My college's namesake, Senator Barbara Jordan, TX (18th district), 1966-1979. "Many seek only to satisfy their private work — wants; to satisfy their private interests. But this is the great danger America faces — that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual; each seeking to satisfy private wants. If that happens, who then will speak for America? Who then will speak for the common good?"

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