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Lyndon Johnson: “Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged…”

On the recordSeptember 22, 1964
Our duty, our opportunity, is to fulfill the rights of all men all over our land, not only because we shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad, but because it is right.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Annual Convention of the International Union of Electrical Workers

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