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Highlight the sentence that President Johnson is using to unite citizens in support of civil rights.
The issue of equal rights for American Negroes is such an issue. And should we defeat every enemy, should we double our w
and still be unequal to this issue, then we will have failed as a people and as a nation.
For with a country as with a person, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem
tonight as Americans-not as Democrats or Republicans-we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.
This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose.
- Lyndon Johnson, The American Promise, March 15, 1965
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