Selma (2014)
Tom Wilkinson: President Lyndon B. Johnson
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Quotes
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : [Speaking to George Wallace] I'll be damned to let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.
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Martin Luther King Jr. : We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.
President Lyndon B. Johnson : Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : And we shall overcome.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : We shouldn't even be thinking about 1965, we should be thinking about 1985.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : Either King stops or Wallace stops or I'll stop them both!
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Gov. George Wallace : Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.
President Lyndon B. Johnson : They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson : But when you have people coming inside the White House, inside the White House, on a tour, they just sat down, Martin, sat down in the main corridor and started singing and shouting, well, I won't have it!