Black Quote by Bill Ayers

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his…

— Tom Wicker

Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for a civil…

— Ron Chernow

“What pretty much guaranteed that Johnson would side with white supremacists was his benighted view of black people. No American president has ever held…

— Ron Chernow

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t…

— Nancy Isenberg

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

— Joe Biden

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

“Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped,…

— Nancy Isenberg

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

— Andrew Young

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy