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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Achievement Future God Gratitude Nature Patriot Remember Technology World
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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Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
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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Discover Education Job Journey Nation
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.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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Control Destiny People Right Vote
But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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Challenge Destiny Ourselves Place Safety
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Fate Freedom History Place Search Time
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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Freedom Ideas Right
I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Battle Flower Men Myself Youth
Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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Bed Entrepreneur Hungry Men Willing
We 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.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Deep Kind Knowledge Wisdom
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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Difference Land People Unity
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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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Change Difference Nation World
In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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See Strength Way
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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End Hard Time Light
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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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
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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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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Believe Education Investment Money Myself Yourself
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Learning Talk Yourself
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves

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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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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