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Lyndon Johnson: “I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through…”

On the recordDecember 9, 1964
I want to thank each and every one of you who has spent an hour or a dollar with the Urban League, because it is through efforts that you have made and others like you that the shackles of bondage have been removed from your fellow man.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the National Urban League's Community Action Assembly

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