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Lyndon B. Johnson — Portrait after a picture by Arnold Newman (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the United States from 1963 to 1969

1908–1973

20 quotes, most often on America, Race and Voting. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

Presidents and Congresses, laws and lawsuits can open the doors to the polling places and open the doors to the wondrous rewards which await the wise use of the ballot. But only the individual Negro, and all others who have been denied the right to vote, can really walk through those doors, and can use that right, and can transform the vote into an instrument of justice and fulfillment.
Remarks on signing the Voting Rights Act (6 August 1965)
- Race
- Voting
This civil rights program about which you have heard so much is a farce and a sham; an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I fought it in the Congress.
Speech in Austin, Texas (22 May 1948), as quoted in Quotations from Chairman LBJ (1968)
- Politics
- Race
Justice means a man’s hope should not be limited by the color of his skin.
State of the Union Address (1966)
- Justice
- Race
Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our Nation whole.
Civil Rights Bill signing speech (1964)
- America
- Race
Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.
We Shall Overcome (1965)
- Justice
- Race

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