For it is not enough just to give men rights. They must be able to use those rights in their personal pursuit of happiness. Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies. Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)
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 different from other men. Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)