The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law. Law has not failed—and is not failing. We as a nation have failed ourselves by not trusting the law and by not using the law to gain sooner the ends of justice which law alone serves. If the white over-estimates what he has done for the Negro without the law, the Negro may under-estimate what he is doing and can do for himself with the law.


Memorial Day Speech (1963)

Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of...

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of...

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of...

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of...