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On the recordAugust 18, 1966
And unless you become indignant, unless you people are concerned with the treatment of the poor in your town, unless you can get a boiling point, unless you can go out and look after your neighbors, unless you can make justice for others a deep, personal concern of our own, poverty will profit from those who exploit the poor and who have been exploiting them for all of these years.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at Columbus Circle, Syracuse, New York

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