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1 " If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come. "
― Lyndon B. Johnson
2 " The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. "
3 " Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact. "
4 " We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. "
5 " Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice. "
6 " It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. "
7 " This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result. "
8 " [T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. "
9 " 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. "
10 " Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. "
11 " Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean! "
12 " Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. "
13 " Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day. "
14 " People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner. "
15 " Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner version which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish. "
16 " He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You’ll see; he’ll do something wrong in the end. He always does. "
17 " A man without a vote is a man without protection. "
18 " While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. "
19 " We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. "
20 " I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years. "
