The 36th President lauded for his progressive domestic policies and criticized for his foreign affairs, Lyndon B. Johnson was born on this date in 1908. You are invited to join the LBJ birthday with a historical review and Texas tunes on Crosscurrents, 8/27 at 8 am.
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.”
“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban af”fluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”
“There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.”
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
“A man without a vote is a man without protection.”
“Don’t Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat”
“Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.”
“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. … It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.
“Light at the end of the tunnel We don’t even have a tunnel we don’t even know where the tunnel is.”
“You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.”
Doggedly Yours 