Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLife is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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