Men may build barricades - and others may hurl themselves against those barricades - but what would happen at the barricades would yield no answers. The answers will only be wrought by our perseverance together. It is deceit to promise more as it would be cowardice to demand less. (Lyndon B. Johnson)

Men may build barricades - and others may hurl themselves against those barricades - but what would happen at the barricades would yield no answers. The answers will only be wrought by our perseverance together. It is deceit to promise more as it would be cowardice to demand less.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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