“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