• 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.

    Lyndon B. Johnson: 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.
    Remarks at Gettysburg on Civil Rights, teachingamericanhistory.org. May 30, 1963.