"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

--

Source : Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

Lyndon B. Johnson

#Men Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Race Quotes

“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
“He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it and puts cane sugar in both our cups. There's something euphorically invigorating and yet filling about it. It tastes the way I imagine the Far East must taste.”
“Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.”
“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.”
“Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.”
“Whatâ€™s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and youâ€™re in heaven, bored rigid”
“Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.”

Source : James Montgomery (1857). “The select poetical works of James Montgomery”, p.87
“In this lineup, anywhere I hit, I don't care. I always go out there and swing the bat the same way.”

You may also like:

Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President
Gerald R. Ford
38th U.S. President
Harry S. Truman
33rd U.S. President
Hubert H. Humphrey
Former Vice President of the United States
Jimmy Carter
39th U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Lady Bird Johnson
Former First Lady of the United States
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President