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“ We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. ”

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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson