Notable Quotations from Lyndon B. Johnson This pocket-sized hardcover book, elegantly stamped with Johnson’s signature on the cover, contains dozens of quotations from America’s 36th President, Lyndon Baines Johnson. “ Until justice is blind to color, until all education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation, but emancipation will not be a fact. ” -Lyndon B. Johnson, remarks at Gettysburg, May 30, 1963