"Their cause must be our cause, too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who..."

“Their cause must be our cause, too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice — and we shall overcome.”

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, The American Promise 15 March 1965, cited by Kevin Baker in Living in L.B.J.’s America

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/149596197902