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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 21, 1965

We never forget those great words of this Charter: To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 21, 1965

What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument in the continuing experiment each generation performs to demonstrate the vitality of our democracy.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

A great public servant in the early days of the republic of my State said: 'Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men will recognize, and the only ruler that free men will accept.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

We are far too easily satisfied when we know that a child has a desk in a classroom with a teacher to instruct him.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

It is what happens inside that classroom that really counts, and that is finally what is really important.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

It really was the instrument which took a boy from the countryside of Texas and opened to him the boundless dreams and the opportunities of American life.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

We asked you to come here to stimulate some fresh thinking, not just talk about old ideas.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

I plan to take your proceedings and read them myself and to circulate them to every office of Government concerned with this subject.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

This Nation has really always been an experiment--an experiment in the capacity of a whole people, ruling its rulers, to deal with changing peril and with shifting expectations.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 20, 1965

I not only learned, but I taught, and I saw for myself how the light of learning could brighten the path of the humble.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 19, 1965

Adlai Stevenson enlarged our horizons as Americans and helped to light the hopes of mankind all around the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jul 19, 1965

In this America--this lively, stirring, exciting America of today--our hearts, as well as our homes, are open to you, open to you always.

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