Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

• We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Opportunity, Doors

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

• You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  Commencement Address at Howard University, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 04, 1965.

• Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Patriotic, Opportunity

• Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Congratulations, Opportunity, Achievement

• We must open the doors of opportunity.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Doors

• ...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Helping

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.298, Best Books on

• In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Desire, Quality

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.262, Best Books on

• We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get a good education we know that they become dropouts and they become delinquents and they become taxeaters instead of taxpayers. We know that they will join the unemployed. That is why we put top priority on breaking the vicious cycle that today threatens the future of 5 million children in this great land of opportunity which we talk about so much.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Opportunity

  Remarks Before the National Conference on Educational Legislation, March 1, 1965.

• We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Moving, Opportunity

  Speech at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 22 May 1964

• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Women, Opportunity

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