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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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Freedom Ideas Right
All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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Creation Empty Equality Inspirational Man Motivational Theory Word
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
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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Himself Mental Oppression Sex Violence Wife Yourself
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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Change Difference Nation World
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
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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Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Better Friendship Himself
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Democracy Politics
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Lesson Live Past Wisdom
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
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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Break Destroy Different Justice Man Powerful Prison Vote
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
…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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Citizenship Country Education Freedom Growth Ourselves Promise Responsibility
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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Inspirational Worst

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