Dred Scott Decision

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    Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)