Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Lyndon B. Johnson on agreement
Lyndon B. Johnson93 quotes“Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.”
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How we navigate between false agreement and polarization is the kind of mastery that collective wisdom represents.
Alan BriskinAlan Briskin When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding.
Alan BrienAlan Brien Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups.
Alan BriskinAlan Briskin This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
Al SharptonAl Sharpton GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award-winning vehicles and components produced in Canada.
Al GreenAl Green Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate).
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
Paul SimonPaul Simon We support any deal that denies Iran nuclear weapons
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