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“They feel that if I have any kind of life at all, I am going to enjoy it as best I can because I may not be here tomorrow. This is what the youth of America is crying today. They also feel that if my education is going to only bring me a diploma, that I will not even have a job waiting for me afterwards, why should I even try to get a diploma? There are boys now that I know across this nation who feel it does not pay to be a good guy today, “Why should I be a good guy? If I am a bad guy, I get thrown in jail and I have a record or the Government is going to take care of me.”

Julia Sweig, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
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Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
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