It is not possible--and it is not right--to neglect a people's hopes because the ocean is vast, or their culture is alien, or their language may be strange, or their race different, or their skin another color.
Lyndon Johnson: “It is not possible--and it is not right--to neglect a people's hopes because the ocean is vast, or their culture is…”
On the recordMarch 15, 1966
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Remarks at the Signing of the Asian Development Bank Act
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