On the recordOctober 6, 1964
We believe in equal rights for all Americans and special privileges for none.
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Remarks in Peoria at the Convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor
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Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.
Thank you all for your welcome and for the wonderful work that you carry on.