Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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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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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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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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But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Jerry 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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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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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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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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