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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

— Lyndon B. Johnson Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)

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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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)

There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.

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)

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