A See and Read Beginning to Read Lyndon Johnson
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"Yesterday is not ours to recover, only tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
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"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance."
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"If you tin can convince the lowest white man he's meliorate than the best colored man, he won't discover you lot're picking his pocket. Hell, requite him somebody to look downwardly on, and he'll empty his pockets for y'all."
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"Enquire him about the cemeteries, Dean!"
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"The land flourished because information technology was fed from so many sources--because information technology was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples."
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"We can depict lessons from the past, merely nosotros cannot live in it."
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"[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument e'er 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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"A man without a vote is a man without protection."
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"President Lyndon Johnson's 10 point formula for success:
1. Acquire to remember names. Inefficiency at this betoken may indicate that your interest is not sufficiently outgoing.
ii. Be a comfortable person and so there is no strain in existence with you. Be an old-shoe, old-hat kind of individual.
3. Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things practise not ruffle you.
four. Don't exist egotistical. Guard against the impression that y'all know it all.
5. Cultivate the quality of being interesting and so people will get something of value from their association with you.
vi. Study to get the "scratchy" elements out of your personality, even those of which yous may exist unconscious.
7. Sincerely endeavour to heal, on an honest Christian footing, every msiunderstanding y'all take had or now have. Bleed off your grievances.
eight. Practice liking people until you learn to do and so genuinely.
ix. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone'south accomplishment, or limited sympathy in sorrow or thwarting.
10. Requite spiritual force to people, and they will give genuine affection to y'all."
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1. Acquire to remember names. Inefficiency at this betoken may indicate that your interest is not sufficiently outgoing.
ii. Be a comfortable person and so there is no strain in existence with you. Be an old-shoe, old-hat kind of individual.
3. Acquire the quality of relaxed easy-going so that things practise not ruffle you.
four. Don't exist egotistical. Guard against the impression that y'all know it all.
5. Cultivate the quality of being interesting and so people will get something of value from their association with you.
vi. Study to get the "scratchy" elements out of your personality, even those of which yous may exist unconscious.
7. Sincerely endeavour to heal, on an honest Christian footing, every msiunderstanding y'all take had or now have. Bleed off your grievances.
eight. Practice liking people until you learn to do and so genuinely.
ix. Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone'south accomplishment, or limited sympathy in sorrow or thwarting.
10. Requite spiritual force to people, and they will give genuine affection to y'all."
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"If i morning I walked on top of the h2o beyond the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim."
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"I may not know much, just I know chicken shit from chicken salad."
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"If futurity generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more the miracles of technology. We must exit them a glimpse of the world as it was in the start, not merely afterwards we got through with it."
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"Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human being failure."
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"Education is non a problem. Education is an opportunity."
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"While you're saving your face, you're losing your donkey."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence"
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"If we stand passively by while the center of each city becomes a hive of depravation, offense and hopelessness…if nosotros get two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then nosotros shall effectively cripple each generation to come."
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"Until justice is blind to color, until didactics is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation simply non a fact."
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"Emancipation was a proclamation, simply non a fact."
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"That bitch of a war killed the lady I actually loved -- the Nifty Society."
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"I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."
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"We did non choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else."
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"Information technology's non doing what is right that's hard for a President. It'southward knowing what is right."
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"Why does Sea Globe accept a seafood restaurant I'thou halfway through my fish burger and I realize Oh man....I could be eating a deadening learner."
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"Don't Spit in the Soup, Nosotros All Gotta Consume"
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"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for usa since they've got something at present they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to practice something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to placidity them down, not enough to make a difference. For if nosotros don't move at all, so their allies volition line upwardly against us and in that location'll be no manner of stopping them, we'll lose the delay and in that location'll exist no manner of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll exist Reconstruction all over again. [Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]"
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"Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins"
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"As long equally you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day y'all die, no one's gonna call y'all by your goddamn proper name. So no matter what yous are called, nigger, you merely let it gyre off your dorsum similar water, and yous'll go far. Merely pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to exist referred to by his name rather than "male child," "nigger" or "chief."]"
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"There are no issues we cannot solve together, and very few nosotros tin solve past ourselves."
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"He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the outset nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the stop. He always does."
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