Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes about Opportunity

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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.

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

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 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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Congratulations, Opportunity, Achievement

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 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

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".

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Patriotic, Opportunity

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

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

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.