American president Quote by Ron Chernow

“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 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 responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

“Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run. No black man will ever be considered for president, no…

— Jeremiah Wright

“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

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

“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever…

— Nancy Gibbs

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

“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

— Bill Ayers

Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United States by the grace of…

— Marguerite Oswald

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