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. JOHNSONThere are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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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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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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