Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Too many of our fellow citizens are still restrained by a straitjacket that was strapped upon them by the mere accident of their birth.

Remarks on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Federal Government

03/16/1966

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We in America love and cherish our liberty and our independence and our freedom, and we do not try to impose it upon other people.