Many are distrustful of their leaders, and believe that their voices are never heard. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans. Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.Īnd now we must look to the future. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present, unemployment, inflation, but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. We are a people in search of a national community. We are a people in a quandary about the present. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems. I could recite these problems, and then I could sit down and offer no solutions. I could list the problems which cause people to feel cynical, angry, frustrated: problems which include lack of integrity in government the feeling that the individual no longer counts the reality of material and spiritual poverty the feeling that the grand American experiment is failing or has failed. I could list the many problems which Americans have. Now that I have this grand distinction, what in the world am I supposed to say? I could easily spend this time praising the accomplishments of this party and attacking the Republicans - but I don’t choose to do that. As Americans sensed a fracturing of American life in the 1970s, Jordan called for Americans to commit themselves to a “national community” and the “common good.” Jordan began by noting she was the first black woman to ever deliver a keynote address at a major party convention and that such a thing would have been almost impossible even a decade earlier. On July 12, 1976, Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
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