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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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