Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes

• I try hard to convince them it’s important – but there’s a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

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• As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

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• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

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• We can’t go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

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• Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn’t have the diversity it has now.

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• There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

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• The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

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• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

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• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

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• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

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• It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

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• I’m not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

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• I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

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• We’re going to have to look very seriously at what we’re doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

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  Tags in Ourselves, Serious

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

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• When you have this many losses, you don’t have a following.

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• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

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• All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.

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• This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind – even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

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• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it’s a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don’t realize it until you start looking back.

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Eddie Bernice Johnson (23)

Birth:	3rd December, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Nurse, Politician

About

Eddie Bernice Johnson was born in Waco, Texas. She is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 30th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She was elected a Texas state Senator. An African-American, she is the first registered nurse elected to the U.S. Congress. She received a bachelor's degree in nursing. She earned an MPA in 1976. She served as Chief Psychiatric Nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital.

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