No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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