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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONIn a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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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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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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.
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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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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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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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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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