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Lyndon B. Johnson — Portrait after a picture by Arnold Newman (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the United States from 1963 to 1969

1908–1973

20 quotes, most often on America, Race and Voting. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

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.
Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)
- Voting
Presidents and Congresses, laws and lawsuits can open the doors to the polling places and open the doors to the wondrous rewards which await the wise use of the ballot. But only the individual Negro, and all others who have been denied the right to vote, can really walk through those doors, and can use that right, and can transform the vote into an instrument of justice and fulfillment.
Remarks on signing the Voting Rights Act (6 August 1965)
- Race
- Voting
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.
We Shall Overcome (1965)
- America
- Voting
A people divided over the right to vote can never build a Nation united.
Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)
- America
- Voting

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