Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Ignorance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.27, Best Books on

• In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Children

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

• This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Uplifting, Education, Country

• When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Names, Poverty, Common

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

• Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Bars, Poverty, Offers

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

• This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Unconditional Love, Poverty

• True poverty does not come from God.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Doe, Poverty, Yiddish

• For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Poverty, Firsts, Conquer

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.377, Best Books on

• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

• The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Finals, Poverty, Conquest

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