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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONNo national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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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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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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…International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free exchange and full collaboration…The knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.
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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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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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