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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn 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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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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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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