As President, he was responsible for designing the "Great Society" legislation that included laws that upheld civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare,Medicaid, environmental protection, aid to education, and his "War on Poverty."
If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
A man without a vote is man without protection.
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
In our home there was always prayer-aloud, proud and unapologetic.
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
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