Andrew Quote by Stephen Ambrose

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

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

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

“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

“Andrew Jackson was the implementer of the final solution for the Indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi. Andrew”

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.

— Paul Mooney

[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

“warfare would be waged west of the Mississippi as it had been earlier against the Abenakis, Cherokees, Shawnees, Muskogees, and even Christian Indians. In…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“As for the Cherokees, they faced a set of laws passed by Georgia: their lands were taken, their government abolished, all meetings prohibited. Cherokees…

— Howard Zinn

“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

“According to Andrew Jackson Rogers, a New Jersey Democrat, “If you pass this bill you will allow the negroes of this country to compete…

— Elizabeth R. Varon

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that…

— Chief Joseph