Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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