Lyndon johnson Quote by George Wallace

[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

I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional…

— Ed Koch

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

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country…

— Eugene McCarthy

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

“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

I would say it was my fault, my choice to not allow people to know who I was. Places I went, people I knew,…

— Toni Kukoc

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

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

The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing…

— Steve Inskeep

Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't been shot…

— Mark Fuhrman

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened…

— Morris Dees