If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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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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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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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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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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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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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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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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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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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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