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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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson The American Promise (1965)

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

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