One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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