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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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)

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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.

The American Promise (1965)

There are no problems which we cannot solve together, and there are very few which any of us can settle by himself.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

The American Promise (1965)

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Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

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