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By Lyndon B. Johnson
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote.
- Source
- Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Johnson's address to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965, after the violence at Selma, asking Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. The next sentence: There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right.