Booker T. Washington replied, July 28, 1896:
"I am very glad to hear that The Salvation Army is going to undertake work among my
people in the southern states. I have always had the greatest respect for the work of the
Salvation Army especially because I have noted that it draws no color line in religion...
In reaching the neglected and, I might say, outcasts of our people, I feel that your methods
and work have peculiar value...God bless you in all your unselfish Christian work for our country."
On December 1, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson remarked to the Salvation Army in New York:
"For a century now, the Salvation Army has offered food to the hungry and shelter to the homeless -
in clinics and children's homes, through disaster relief, in prison and welfare work,
and a thousand other endeavors.
In that century you have proved time and again the power of a handshake, a meal, and a song.
But you have not stopped there. You have demonstrated also the power of a great idea."
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