You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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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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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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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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Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.
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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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