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. JOHNSONPeace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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