Barbara Jordan Quote

I am here simply because all those people in the Eighteenth District of Texas cannot get on planes and buses and come to Washington to speak for themselves. They have elected me as their spokesperson, nothing else, and my only job is to speak for them.

Ebony (February 1975)

I am here simply because all those people in the Eighteenth District of Texas cannot get on planes and buses and come to Washington to speak for...

I am here simply because all those people in the Eighteenth District of Texas cannot get on planes and buses and come to Washington to speak for...

I am here simply because all those people in the Eighteenth District of Texas cannot get on planes and buses and come to Washington to speak for...

I am here simply because all those people in the Eighteenth District of Texas cannot get on planes and buses and come to Washington to speak for...