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Article: Quiet activist speaks against death penalty.(Metropolitan Times)(Metropolitan Life)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 11, 1997
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Anyone whose ever engaged in a discussion with Sam Jordan knows he is nothing if not intense. But never irrational.
This quintessential community activist, the acting chairman of the David Clarke Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the former chairman of the D.C. Statehood Party, usually operates behind the scenes in a mild, methodical and scholarly manner.
Not once, in all the years that Mr. Jordan has protested the undemocratic actions of congressional overlords toward D.C. residents and their duly elected officials, has he courted arrest or media attention.
Even gentlemen have their breaking points. Sam Jordan reached that ...