Lyndon Baines Johnson

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    In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to brotherhood.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.
    —BarrĂ© Lyndon (1896–1972)

    The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    I am not describing a distant utopia, but the kind of education which must be the great urgent work of our time. By the end of this decade, unless the work is well along, our opportunity will have slipped by.
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)