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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONWe have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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