Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan, Baltimore County General Hospital Foudnation, Melvyn Goldman Appreciation Dinner Page: 5 of 10
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"MEN WHO ARE GOVERNED BY REASON...
DESIRE FOR THEMSELVES NOTHING
WHICH THEY DO NOT ALSO D SIRE
FOR THE REST OF MANKIND.
AS I THOUGHT ABOUT MEL AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY
WHO HAVE VOLUNTARILY GIVEN OF THEMSELVES IN ORDER TO CREATE
A MODERN, GENERAL HOSPITAL, I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS
ACCOMPLISHMENT IN A LARGER CONTEXT: GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
IN THE LIVES OF AMERICANS AND THE WIDESPREAD CONCERN ABOUT
THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THAT INTERVENTION.
OUR NATION BEGAN WITH A GOVERNMENT WHICH ORIGINALLY
WAS CONCERNED WITH POLITICAL FREEDOM, POLITICAL LIBERTY,
POLITICAL EQUALITY. A GOVERNMENT LABORIOUSLY DESIGNED TO
AVERT GOVERNMENTAL INTERFERENCE WITH THE LIVES OF THE
PEOPLE. NOT UNTIL A CENTURY LATER DID THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY,
BUT BY THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS AND INJUSTICES GENERATED REFORM EFFORTS,
THE POPULISTS SOUGHT AVENUES -- HANDLES -- WHICH WOULD
ENABLE THE PEOPLE TO EXERT GREATER INFLUENCE ON THE GOVERN-
MENT. AMONG THE REFORMS SOUGHT WERE THE INITIATIVE,
REFERENDUM, A GRADUATED INCOME TAX AND THE DIRECT ELECTION
OF SENATORS.
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Jordan, Barbara C. Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan, Baltimore County General Hospital Foudnation, Melvyn Goldman Appreciation Dinner, text, June 4, 1978; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611348/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Southern University.