You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEvery citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.
Lyndon B. JohnsonNo nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.
Lyndon B. JohnsonEffective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWhen I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.
Lyndon B. Johnson