Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

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

Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

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.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Freedom is not enough.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The 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.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.