Black Quote by Bill Ayers

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

— Bill Ayers

“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

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

“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

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

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

“Members of Congress, outraged by the events at Selma, forty times interrupted his address with applause. Johnson closed by raising his thumbs, fists clenched,…

— James T. Patterson

“The core insight of modern liberalism is powerfully simple: we all benefit from a society that provides for the economic security and wellbeing of…

— Ian Haney López

When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places…

— Robert Dallek

“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

Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the…

— H. R. McMaster

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke