Barbara Jordan Quote

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, 1 was not included in that "We, the people." 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."

Statement at debate on articles of impeachment, Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives (July 25, 1974)