WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:14:30 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg affirmative action – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Johnson, Lyndon -- Speech (1965-06-04), Commencement, Howard University https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/19674/ https://wist.info/johnson-lyndon/19674/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:49:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=19674 You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: “Now, you are free to go where you want, do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.” You do not take a man who for years has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, “You are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. 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 (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)
Speech (1965-06-04), Commencement, Howard University
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