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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONOne 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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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have 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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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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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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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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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.
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There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
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