I think the main purpose of the speech was to gather the African Americans together and kind of rally them and get them excited about right. Maybe even put some confidence in them that they really do have a purpose.
I really liked part of the speech when he said “There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.” This really says a lot about what that Johnson wanted to portray. He isn’t pointing fingers or blaming a specific group of people, he is sharing the responsibilities of the blame to everyone and saying that if we just keep working together, things will get better and we can work through the problem.
Other important quotes from his speech were “Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes. Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument: every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color.” All of this talks about how before there were major restrictions on voting rights and who could and now he enjoys telling everyone that if this passes, each American citizen will have an equal right to vote; women and anyone from any race can vote.
All in all, this was a very important speech that changed America into what it is today.
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