Lyndon Johnson actually said...

A hundred years ago Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains, but he did not free the country of its bigotry.

This bill is going to pass if it takes us all summer, and this bill is going to be signed and enacted into law because justice and morality ...

Today, again the problem of racial wrongs and racial hatreds is the central moral problem of this Republic.

It is your job as prophets in our time to direct the immense power of religion in shaping the conduct and the thoughts of men toward their b...