Your Government and you Americans are going to successfully conclude that war that you have declared on these ancient enemies.

The artificial kidney gives invalids new hope for normal and productive life.

It is an ambition of mine.

Most of them are here.

I did not come in for a press conference.

This bill that I will sign shortly, will provide the bricks and the mortar for the biomedical research laboratories throughout this entire Nation.

There are serious problems there, but also things that are better in a good many situations than we anticipated.

You don't build a big building and then lock the doors.

The right is one which no American, true to our principles, can deny.

We will not delay, or we will not hesitate, or we will not turn aside until Americans of every race and color and origin in this country have the same right as all others to share in the process of democracy.

The wrong is one which no American, in his heart, can justify.

It is not just a question of guilt, although there is that.

This act flows from a clear and simple wrong. Its only purpose is to right that wrong.

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 the terrible walls which imprison men because they are…

Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because of their color.

Freedom and justice and the dignity of man are not just words to us.

It is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness.

So, let me now say to every Negro in this country: You must register. You must vote.