“To those who seek to avoid action by their National Government in their home communities—who want to and who seek to maintain purely local control over elections—the answer is simple. Open your polling places to all your people. Allow men and women to register and vote whatever the color of their skin. Extend the rights of citizenship to every citizen of this land. There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.” - Lyndon B. Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), Voting Rights Act Address, 1965.
[Photo: President Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
Bitches can hate but LBJ was
a hero. pantslessprogressive: