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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONAll 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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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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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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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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