“These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." -- Lyndon B. Johnson on the Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    IIRC this was while he was showing dumb pictures of him looking around the Whitehouse (like under the desk, and in the bathrooms and shit).