Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have
to ensure that right.
Johnson, Lyndon B. "Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise." 15 Mar. 1965. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965, Book 1, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966, p. 281.
1st Baron Macaulay. Macaulay was opposed to universal suffrage, and when John Stuart Mill and others started a movement for allowing all males to vote, this was one of the tactics to stave off allowing the lower classes to vote.
The issue was the voting franchise for Negroes in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Of the men who conceived and carried out the Watergate break-in:
Even after the South was defeated in the Civil War, most Southern politicians strove to keep the newly freed Blacks from voting. The vehicle they chose to attain that purpose was the concept of States’ Rights where the states were the sole determiners of who could and could not vote. The majority of the country rejected that view and the Constitution was amended to allow Black men to vote. After reconstruction Black voting in the South was curtailed substantiality by devices such as poll taxes and literacy requirements and terror and intimidation. It was not until the latter part of the 20th century that most Blacks could vote in the Southern States.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson was also a United States representative and later majority leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people to have served, at various times, in all four federal elected positions.
