In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled. Lyndon B. Johnson
In two of the five states - New Jersey and North Carolina - that then gave the free negro the right of voting, the right has since been taken away. Abraham Lincoln