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Barbara Jordan: I felt somehow...

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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in We, the people.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Barbara Jordan, (Feb 21 1936-1996), US lawyer, educator, politician; She served as U.S. congressional representative from Texas, 1972-78; first black congresswoman to come from the Deep South.

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