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Quotes from The American Promise — Lyndon B. Johnson

1908–1973 United States

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Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.

The American Promise (1965)

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

The American Promise (1965)

All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race.

The American Promise (1965)

I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy.

The American Promise (1965)

The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color.

The American Promise (1965)

But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over.

The American Promise (1965)

Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.

The American Promise (1965)

For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.

The American Promise (1965)

These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. They are the enemies and not our fellow man, not our neighbor. And these enemies too, poverty, disease and ignorance, we shall over, come.

The American Promise (1965)

In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.

The American Promise (1965)

Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

The American Promise (1965)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lyndon B. Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.