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. JOHNSONEducation will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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 you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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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.
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…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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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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