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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 09:44 AM
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A Brilliant Speech About Change
Barbara Jordan, 1992 Democratic National Convention.

Audio at link.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarajordan1992dnc.html
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ElsewheresDaughter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 09:49 AM
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1. nooo Obama plagiarizing some else's words...get out of town!...Holy Crap almost verbatim
Edited on Thu Feb-21-08 09:50 AM by ElsewheresDaughter
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flor de jasmim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 10:12 AM
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3. Verbatim?! Oh, come on...
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RunningFromCongress Donating Member (519 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:08 PM
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6. you're just trolling now right?
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 09:55 AM
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2. Jordan, if she had been given the opportunity, would have brought real change.
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 12:52 PM
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4. She was really something, wasn't she? n/t
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 03:44 PM
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8. She was the genuine article. Can you imagine her letting herself be
molded by adviser?
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Armstead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:05 PM
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5. Great Speech but depressing that it is still timely
So much of what she mentioned is worse today.
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carlotta Donating Member (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-21-08 01:16 PM
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7. Here's a quote about change that I love
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward." ~Ellen Glasgow
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