As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“It would be something fine if we could learn how to bless the lives of children. They are the people of new… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
