If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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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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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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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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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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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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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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