If you do this, then you will find, as others have found before you, that the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying th...
The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify.
They came in darkness and they came in chains.
The time for injustice has gone.
The time for failure is gone.
Today we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds.
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless.
Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield.
This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong.
It is difficult to fight for freedom.
So, let me now say to every Negro in this country: You must register. You must vote.