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" To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process. "

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" I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. "

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