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Lyndon Johnson: “And unless you become indignant, unless you people are concerned with the treatment of the poor in your town, unless you…”

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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