Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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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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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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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.
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