Lyndon Johnson actually said...

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.

Context

Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act

08/05/1965

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