Lyndon Johnson: “I don't think that our minorities will ever forget that this Congress passed the historic Voting Rights Act.”

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.

I believe deeply in your cause and I believe in you.

In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.