Lyndon johnson Quote by Nancy Isenberg

“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'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“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

“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big.…

— Robert A. Caro

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

“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.”

— Robert A. Caro

“I know I grew up in the time when a young man in a baggy suit and slicked-down hair stood spraddle-legged in the crossroads…

— Rick Bragg

[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

“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

“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price for ignoring…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“You all know from past experiences that the white man only sees the bad that our people do to them. They are blind to…

— Violetta Botzet Luetgers

“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who, in the…

— Robert A. Caro