Lyndon Johnson actually said...

And, if the goal of true equality is still far down the road, the barriers before that goal are falling every day.

Exactly 175 years ago today America sent another light out into the world.

Here at home, in our own land, more than 20 million Negroes still yearn for the rights and the dignity that the rest of us take for granted.

Each of you has exercised the highest form of citizenship that any citizen can perform.