I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONYou know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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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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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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