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.
Remarks in the Capitol Rotunda at the Signing of the Voting Rights Act
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I call upon them to cooperate fully with the Secretaries of Commerce and State in this important work.
Men like this have seen our country through every crisis that has ever confronted our Nation.
I hope to some day be able to come there and see you in your own land, in your own atmosphere.
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