Thursday, 22 May 2014

The Wit and Wisdom of... LBJ

But only... all... 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 fulfilment. 
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

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States of America, signing the Voter Rights Act into law, 1966

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