June Jordan Quotes

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

We have more voices from more points of view on the C-SPAN call-in show than I've heard anywhere else. You can literally tune us in every day and hear it all. You can't control it, and you shouldn't control it.

I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

I believe in the First Amendment. But I also believe we should be mindful of how other people feel.

There are objective people, there are opinion people, and in my opinion that makes for a better America.

America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.

God is infinitely creative, and everyone's different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice.

I still would say generally that more people have access [to] and take advantage of more diversity of opinion than was once .

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.

Islam has always been part of America

our rights come from our Creator and it is impossible to define America if you do not talk in public about where your rights come from.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.