You don't build a big building and then lock the doors.
All of this time, every minute that your President is doing something, is accounted for.
This bill that I will sign shortly, will provide the bricks and the mortar for the biomedical research laboratories thro...
Our policy has been enumerated.
It is not just a question of guilt, although there is that.
If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever ...
Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.
It is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.
I intend to act with equal dispatch in enforcing this act.
Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds.
They came in darkness and they came in chains.
Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color.
The time for injustice has gone.
The time for failure is gone.
This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong.
So, let me now say to every Negro in this country: You must register. You must vote.
Freedom and justice and the dignity of man are not just words to us.
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.
