If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, an…

Barbara Jordan
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If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country. ✨ Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait, Doubleday Books
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