Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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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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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’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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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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