Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

Remarks at the Signing of the Asian Development Bank Act

03/15/1966

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