Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Few documents in all the history of freedom have ever so illuminated the paths of men.

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.