No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONUntil 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.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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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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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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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren’t much happier about taxation with representation.
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