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  • The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

  • There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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    Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

  • This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

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    Destiny  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.841, Best Books on

  • At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

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    Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

  • There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

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    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

  • Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

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    Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.
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Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Born: August 27, 1908
  • Died: January 22, 1973
  • Occupation: 36th U.S. President
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