Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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 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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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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.
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