The American goal is to eliminate completely the disability and the death among children that is caused by rheumatic fev...
Here on this quiet battleground our Nation today leads a worldwide war on disease.
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.
So, let me now say to every Negro in this country: You must register. You must vote.
It is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.
The time for injustice has gone.
The time for waiting is gone.
They came in darkness and they came in chains.
The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify.
It is difficult to fight for freedom.
We will not delay, or we will not hesitate, or we will not turn aside until Americans of every race and color and origin...
Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color.
Freedom and justice and the dignity of man are not just words to us.
This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong.
Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.
I intend to act with equal dispatch in enforcing this act.
It is not just a question of guilt, although there is that.
The time for failure is gone.
