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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

…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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Discover Education Job Journey Nation
Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Economy Simplicity
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Believe Leadership Price Time
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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Fast Responsibility Trouble
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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Government Harm Inspirational Light Wrong Yourself
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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Problem Right Wisdom
While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Face Loss Yourself
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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Eyes Goodness Policy Power
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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Citizenship Discover Happiness Nation Revolution
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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Ability Bad People Talent Waste
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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Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
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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Government People Purpose
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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Myself Room Strange Writing
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking

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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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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