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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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.
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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 will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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John ain’t been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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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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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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