Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectat…

Barbara Jordan
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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. ✨ Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait, Doubleday Books
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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. ✨ Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait, Doubleday Books

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