QOTD -- Civil Rights Act Of 1964

 

 

"Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in history — the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  It prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.  That day, our Nation moved closer to our North Star, the founding ideal of America:  We are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.  We have never fully lived up to that idea, but we have never walked away from it either.  On this anniversary, we promise we will not walk away from it now..." -- President Biden, in a Proclamation on the 60th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  We (Democrats) won't walk away from it, but white nationalist MAGAt Republicans and their "jurists" are goosestepping away from it as fast as they can.

(Photo:  President Johnson shaking Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, hand at the signing ceremony, July 2, 1964 / Getty Images)