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Vernon Jordan [1935-0] American

Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. is an American business executive and civil rights activist in the United States. A leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen by President Bill Clinton as a close adviser.

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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.		101
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.		102
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.		103
But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.		104
Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.		105
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.	Leadership	106
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.		107
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.		108
Terrorism is not new to black people.		109
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.		110
My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.		111

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