There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.
Lyndon B. Johnson