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By Lyndon B. Johnson
If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that 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.
- Source
- Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Johnson's remarks in the Capitol Rotunda when he signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. He is speaking to Black citizens, urging them to register and vote.