Good Quote by Martin Luther King III

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

I'm from Texas, so I'm an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in Vietnam, but…

— Barbara Barrie

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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 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

The foundational principles of modern liberalism - civil rights and greater economic equality - took further strides during Johnson's presidency than any since the…

— Neera Tanden

“The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was "Johnson's War." His critics are correct…

— James T. Patterson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

[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

He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

— Robert Dallek

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith