Tag: Lyndon B. Johnson

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

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This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

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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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War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world.

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We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)

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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

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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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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. … We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

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