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Lyndon Johnson: “We believe in equal rights for all Americans and special privileges for none.”

On the recordOctober 6, 1964
We believe in equal rights for all Americans and special privileges for none.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks in Peoria at the Convention of the Illinois State Federation of Labor

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