Barbara Jordan Keynote Address to 1976 Democratic National Convention

Renown orator Barbara Jordan delivers the Keynote Address to the delegates of the 1976 Democratic National Convention. Excerpt taken from Great Speeches Volume 4 from Educational Video Group, Inc. available at www.evgonline.com

[@dropsoffaith]

Funny how almost 40 years later Miss Jordan's words are still very relevant.

[@beasleybrother1]

Many Congress people today and most tea party office holders could not hold a candle to Barbara Jordan.. simply amazing.

[@jasonpurvis123]

What a stirring speech, I still get chills even in 2012!

[@Lellobeetle]

I'm conservative, but I'm also a Texan and I love Barbara Jordan. I miss her and wish that she could have made it to see Obama elected.

[@jakeornot6306]

I wish she could have lived to BE President.

[@jakeornot6306]

Somehow, I don't think she would have been so very impressed. But Miss Jordan is simply great.

[@loboblue5441]

Lellobeetle she would've been ashamed of him

[@onlyteaandme8461]

My English teacher always said that when she envisioned God she envisioned Barbara Jordan

[@dancewomyn1]

Your English teacher was right! ;)

[@richardplace4856]

Amen

[@richardplace4856]

What a president she would have been

[@realspark21]

The current Democrats would think she is a Republican and hate her...

[@techsysengineer5135]

Yeah when that woman spoke, damn.

[@zenobia328]

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.” - President Barack Obama, from his acceptance speech in the early morning of November 7th, 2012.

[@KLWilsonUS]

She was an amazing person. And she speaks to not just a party or state but a nation. She was also from Texas, which sort of makes up for "W" and Perry. Just saying we have both ends of the spectrum.

[@ebertmadwoman]

I'm a Libertarian and I think she was one smart woman!!

[@222Afaf]

Love her commanding voice

[@NoirFan01]

Barbara Jordan. My new hero!

[@415nerissa]

Absolutely love this lady. I miss her.

[@NoirFan01]

Barbara Jordan: My new hero!

[@Wolfsky9]

I idolized this woman !! She's a real hero. ------ She & Elizabeth Holtzman -----------heroes of The House Judiciary Committee & The Watergate Hearings. ---------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o

[@ComedyJesus]

She is one of the greatest humans to have ever lived.

[@lawrencebell4733]

We as American must remember what is at stake.

[@webpresencemedia1]

Masterful!!!

[@vaneitaadams4790]

What a voice!

[@nathanb6037]

Her lisps are annoying

[@nognilk]

Sh*T, we've backslided a lot, we've went from Barbara Jordan to Sarah Palin.

[@OUTTAIDEAS88]

Wow. Amazing.

[@chriztashiadrake5309]

she does good

[@iflick7235]

I wish had had lived to see the Presidency of Barak Obama

[@yowermutha]

She has such a great speaking voice, much like President Obama

[@MountTheodore72]

I have to admit, she's better

[@123Jennyjones123]

Barbara Jordan is right.

[@larryurneryahoocom]

I wonder what the great Americans of the past would think of our current generation?

[@ender3960]

Okay seriously I love her accent.

[@johe64]

Our government also has fostered a "it's mine and I deserve it" mentality. Now, I don't believe for a second that Barbara Jordan would agree, nor any other Democrat would agree. But it is just my own personal observation.

[@mariabryant19]

She is so awesome pertinent for today

[@n00bpwn3r]

I used to think Speech 111 rocked until this quiz! :P

[@elwin38]

i was 8yrs old:((((

[@iisweet]

My heroine.

[@tranurse]

if she hadn't have gotten ill, i bet it would have happened.

[@lalala22333]

she's such a awesome political person to look up to. I never knew about her till now, and let me say if she was running for president, she would have already had my vote before they even chose her to be one. lol

[@AthenaSchroedinger]

Great speaker, totally awesome. So sad that seemly no one in public office can speak like this. I remember her, and thought at the time she was a remarkable woman. We need a Barbara Jordon in today's world, an highly intelligent person, an excellent speaker; who should have been, at least, vice president under Carter. Instead we have total air-heads like Palin & Bachmann, IQs of a piece of furniture, who don't history from a hole in the ground and can't speak better than a 5th grader.

[@jayweh]

I'm reading this 8 years later and chuckle about the outrage from your time. it has not gotten better.

[@Da90sbaby]

Regina king as Barbara Jordan🤔🤗😍

[@jtonnac9096]

Lol why she sound like AL Capone? "I'm a keynote speaker, see?"

[@jakeornot6306]

To say anything negative about this wondrous woman is disgusting. It is worse, however, that this is what you focus on.

[@Kastchei]

Hehe, I stopped to look up her accent, too. So striking.

[@43shoemaker]

Inspiring

[@Bacopa68]

Best US rep ever out of Texas. TX-18 Forever. Micky Leeland was cool, Harold Washington was a joke, but he got offed by Jackson-Lee. Shiela's not as crazy as you think. She deliferes for her peeps.

[@perrycomeau2627]

A wise woman.

[@tranurse]

amen.

[@nyc10031black]

@ricksterific-Please do not use Sarah Palin and Barbara Jordan in the same sentence. That is a complete disgrace to her, Barbara Jordan's, memory.

[@iVenge]

She would have been a first rate President.

[@johe64]

What a beautiful person. I really enjoyed what I heard in her speech. As a Republican, though, I must address her statement, "What is it about the Democratic Party that makes it the instrument the people use when they search for ways to shape their future? Well, I believe the answer...is in our concept of governing. Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people... etc..." I agree. The Democratic Ideal is based upon government being the answer to solving our problems.

[@imasherman933]

She had a voice to b heard Nancy couldn't hold a candle

[@diegotlamantli]

Anyone here from Encarta 98 ?? A collage of US history? No? 😂

[@beaugarsNYC]

BRAVO!!

[@carlettagoodrich-mann1377]

Democratic. Streaming that evolves to practicing seamless integration . 2020 we reflect on best practices from both parties. Privatized priorities that focus on the families homiletics. Sailors commanding chemistry devoted to bravery cleverly woven mindsets who journey to move forward

[@John-cq3hk]

Michael Berry show brought me here

[@ialphoto]

What’s crazy is that Democrats today would call her right wing for this speech

[@janrosekasmir]

YOU ARE NO BARBARA JORDAN, BARACK OBAMA!

[@4door2seater99]

0:38

[@lorenbeuke9858]

A shot of Chicago's Mayor Daley, who would die of a heart attack 4 months later.

[@johe64]

Of government handing out to people, instead of making people seek work. Government should never be what people turn to for assistance. If the Church were to act as it should, and if our charity organizations were fully funded by a generous population and properly managed, the government could be about the business as laid out in the constitution. But no. The Democratic Party, as well as Republicans, have created a governmental society which promotes entitlements.

[@jamie.t.k.hulinjr4061]

Is she half British ???! Sounds like an accent.

[@enkelin32]

No born and raised in Houston Texas.

[@toCareorCareNot]

+Jamie H. A) No, she speaks with a Gulf Coast drawl. B) It sounds like an accent because *everyone* talks with an accent.

[@SabrinasDigitalLife]

No she was African American

[@mannerforspammer]

At least she didnt get up and start shootign off a bunch of race crap that you hear today. Anytime nowadays that you have a black politician speaker you immediatly knwo its about race i hate race i dont mind blacks or whites but there is no mroe racist in america PERIOD! Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

[@ashantidejesus9451]

There's still racism in like south Africa or some part of Jamaica so get your facts straight.

[@mannerforspammer]

Ashanti Dejesus Is south africa and jamaica in america?

[@mannerforspammer]

***** if i wasnt listening then why would i look up this video?

[@gphillimo]

***** I'm not white

[@chief9116]

I don't think you heard her in the beginning. To think racism doesn't exist shows racism is all around you. Perhaps it's you. The sad thing about racism is being racist and not even know it. When, we turn a blind eye to racism it only brings destruction to civilization.

[@mariamorin4586]

MOST BORING PART OF KZbin KZbin IS EXPOSED TO BE FUN

[@jakeornot6306]

When people comment to asinine statements like yours, they often say, "If you don't want to see it, don't watch it."  I hate that comment, but would apply it in your case.  Your ignorance is deplorable.

[@danc0nia]

This lady's accent is so annoying. God I hate politicians...

[@jakeornot6306]

You are of the type of ignorant that is disgusting. This is a brilliant woman speaking with wisdom and masterful oratorical skill.

[@mr.flimflamsdad1351]

your so extremely ignorant

[@Wolfsky9]

To : " dancOnia" : 1st off, if Ms Jordan's " accent" bothers you------why are you here at this particular entry on YT ?? --------2nd : you " hate" politicians ?? Did you ever stop to realize that "politicians" created our Constitution ? Our Bill Of Rights ? Social Security ? Medicare? The '64 Civil Rights Bill ?? The '65 Voting Rights Act? The Affordable Care Act ? --------Oh, I'll grant you, politicians have made mistakes-------but all in all, I'll take them any day to your alternative-------whatever THAT may be. -----------------------WolfSky9, 72 y/o

[@roybrowne1974]

she is speaking english

[@NoirFan01]

Barbara Jordan: My new hero!

[@lawrencebell4733]

We as American must remember what is at stake.