Unless the right to vote be secure and undenied, all other rights are insecure and subject to denial for all our citizens. The challenge to this right is a challenge to America itself. We must meet this challenge as decisively as we would meet a challenge mounted against our land from enemies abroad.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963–69)

Letter (1965-03-15), “Special Message to the Congress on the Right to Vote”
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