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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJustice 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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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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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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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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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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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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.
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I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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