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. JOHNSONJerry 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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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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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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