There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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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A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find 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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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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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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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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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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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