Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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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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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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
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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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Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
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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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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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