Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
From Richard M. Nixon
A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
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