One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJustice 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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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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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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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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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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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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