Apr 28, 1964
A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry.
Lyndon Johnson
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Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Texas and began his political career as a U.S. Representative in 1937, later becoming a U.S. Senator in 1949. Johnson ascended to the presidency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and his administration is noted for significant domestic policies, including the Great Society programs aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice. His legislative achievements included the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid.
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Apr 28, 1964
Today, again the problem of racial wrongs and racial hatreds is the central moral problem of this Republic.
Apr 28, 1964
It is your job as prophets in our time to direct the immense power of religion in shaping the conduct and the thoughts of men toward their brothers in a manner consistent with compassion and love.
Apr 27, 1964
We must quit thinking of it just as a force for destruction, or as an instrument for war.
Apr 26, 1964
We are determined that no nation shall ever exceed us in preparedness, and none shall ever excel us in the pursuit of honorable peace, for we shall keep both our reason and our readiness at all times.
Apr 26, 1964
To you who have given so freely and so fully to your Nation's welfare, your President commends you and salutes you and thanks you.
Apr 26, 1964
If a peaceful change of these conditions is impossible, a violent change is inevitable.
Apr 26, 1964
There is one good thing about lightning hitting your wife's plane--it put her back to riding with me again!
Apr 26, 1964
Each year for the last 3 years, with the growing population, with new demands and new needs upon us, our local and our State budgets have materially increased over the country.
Apr 26, 1964
So, as goes the money problem, so goes the Nation in a great many respects.
Apr 26, 1964
We are being taught some useful skills, and it is costing us $31 a week for them to do it, so they can live.
Apr 26, 1964
The previous week it was announced that our gross national product had reached $608 1/2 billion in the first quarter of this year, after the longest period of uninterrupted prosperity in the peacetime history of America.
Apr 26, 1964
I have been rejecting the political advice of experts for 32 years that I have been in this game.
Apr 26, 1964
Let this be said: That the real war to end all wars must be the war to eliminate poverty.
Apr 26, 1964
Discrimination costs us $15 billion due to wasted and underused manpower.
Apr 26, 1964
Until education is unaware of race, until employment is blind to color, emancipation will be a proclamation, but it will not be a fact.
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