Political Quotes

“Today, I would like to continue the journey through the vastness of the 23nd District of Texas and pass through a Texas town with an early reputation for infamy. ``Cotulla! Everybody get your guns ready,'' that is what train conductors would yell as they approached the town of Cotulla, which was established in 1881. In spite of its infamous start, Cotulla emerged from the roughness that is common to early Texas towns and became an early indicator of the social change that was to come to America, taking on issues such as civil rights and women's education. Life in Cotulla inspired a very young teacher, a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, who went on to serve as our country's 36th President, and inspired him to lead the fight for change. President Johnson taught Mexican Americans in Cotulla's segregated public schools. {time} 1045 Early on, he understood how education could pull a family out of generations of poverty and push them into the middle class. LBJ, after his experience in Cotulla, once said: This Nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American. Education, the key that opens the locks of success, found an early ally in Cotulla. The town itself was founded by a young entrepreneur by the name of Joseph Cotulla, who was a Polish immigrant and a veteran of the Union Army.…”