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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONLet 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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