Lyndon Johnson actually said...

For much too long this nation has tolerated in the District of Columbia conditions that our ancestors fought a revolution to eliminate.

Letter to the Speaker Urging Consideration of the D.C. Home Rule Bill by the House of Representatives.

08/03/1965

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Thurgood Marshall is the first Negro in the history of the United States ever to become the Solicitor General.

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Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.

We labor towards the day when the cause of brotherhood may prevail, and the violence that sometimes scars the face of America may be ended.