You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAll 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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Life 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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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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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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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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