“This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.”

—  Lyndon B. Johnson

1960s, Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)
Context: In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."

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