...has been used to deny" the right to vote. "It is wrong — deadly wrong," the president continued, "to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country." Calling for no delay, no hesitation, and no compromise, Johnson reminded the assembled legislators...

...person, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" . . . There is no issue of states' rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights . . . Last time a President sent a civil rights bill to Congress it contained a provision to protect...

...Congress, and for the last time in his presidency, he delighted all of his liberal constituents. Calling it "deadly wrong to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote," he urged the rapid passage of the Voting Rights Act, which remains one of the proudest achievements...

...the Congress and asked it to eliminate the barriers to voting by blacks.7 He put the issue this way: "There is no constitutional issue here. The command...fellow Americans the right to vote in this country" (Johnson 1966, 283). Though Johnson had never been conspicuous for strong and principled stands during...

...legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome." 87 He also reprimanded his fellow southerners, "It is wrong — deadly wrong — to deny any of your...fellow Americans the right to vote in this country." 88 Impressed by these sentiments, John Lewis, the bruised veteran of the Selma skirmish, praised the...

...addressed a special joint session of Congress to explain why he thought its passage was imperative: There is no constitutional issue here. The command...Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote. There is no issue of states' rights or national...

...before the nation to call for a voting rights act, "The command of the Constitution is plain. ... lt is wrong ... to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote. . . . What happened in Selma is part of a larger movement which reaches into every section and every...

...to "shape a turning point in man's unending march for freedom." After first reminding Congress that "it is wrong — deadly wrong — to deny any of your...fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Johnson declared that "we have already waited a hundred years or more, and the time for waiting is...

...emulators and mourners the nurture and the honor we owe them. CHAPTER 3 VOTING WRONGS • Losing Faith "It is wrong — deadly wrong — to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote," Lyndon Johnson told a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965, following a week of interracial...

...applause, twice by standing ovations. "There is no constitutional issue here," President Johnson said. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong ... to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote. There is no issue of states' rights or...