John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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Justice 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.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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 we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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