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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Human Kind Man Nation Race Rule Space
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Fear History Myself Politics War
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. JOHNSON

Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Death Kind Myself Nation Vision
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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Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Excellence Search Success
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Achievement Ambition Comfortable Creation Future Men Present Purpose Reality Satisfaction Time
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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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
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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End Hard Time Light
I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Acceptance Myself Seek Yourself
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Control Destiny People Right Vote
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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Ourselves Problem Relationship Togetherness Unity
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Generation Ourselves Worth
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Difference Heart Nation Poison Prayer Spring Understand Wisdom
I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Better Black Empty Himself Men Money Myself White
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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself

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