Lyndon Johnson actually said...

We must subordinate our loyalty to any group to a greater loyalty and commitment to the moral principle upon which this Republic was founded, that is, to freedom and to justice and to the brotherhood of man.

Context

The President's News Conference

09/04/1964

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