President Lyndon Johnson - Remarks on Signing the Civil Rights Bill

You can view the full speech here: millercenter.or...
The President notes the discrepancies between the freedoms outlined in the Constitution and the reality of life in America before praising the Civil Rights Bill for outlawing such differences. Johnson also sets out his plan for enforcing the law and asks citizens to remove injustices in all communities.
July 2nd, 1964

[@mikeashante8065]

he was born and bred in the south. he still passed laws that pissed off his boys from the south. i don't idolize this guy but give him credit for growing beyond his roots.

[@andymac2051]

You realize when he signed this he said "I'll have these ni***** voting Democrat for the next 200 years"... theres a video of him saying it... 🤣

[@jamiearan]

@The Life Analyst It first surfaced in 1995

[@jamiearan]

@The Life Analyst Yes-the great society was the last phase of the New Deal Coalition

[@JK-se2nj]

I think they took the video down

[@raymercedes7299]

This man needs more credit then he gets

[@paraconti4738]

If not for his misjudgment on pursuing the Vietnam War, THIS man could've been one of the greatest Presidents; certainly the greatest post-War II. He did so much for civil rights, social justice, land reform and basic things like housing and education for every single American.

[@warilban]

LBJ would have been FDR level if it wasn't for Nam

[@midnightrunner684]

Trump is the Elvis Presley of presidents ..He Kicks Ass

[@republicanconstitutionalis8061]

FDR was a terrible president. He put the Japanese Americans in concentration camps put a KKK member on the Supreme Court, admired Mussolini, gave Stalin half of Europe without a fight, prolonged the Great Depression, and packed the Supreme Court with liberal judges.

[@glennredwine289]

FDR made mistakes(Japanese internment) but he is still a GREAT PRESIDENT(who do you prefer Mr, Republican Constitutionalist, Herbert Hoover? fool!!). America would have had to immediately go to war with the Soviet Union because Stalin wouldn't given up Eastern Europe without a fight. Roosevelt and Truman were already worried that a war weary nation didn't have the stomach for the 1 million estimated casualties we would sustained in a direct amphibious invasion of Japan. These estimates very well have been correct because look at the pictures of Saipan, Japanese civilians who accompanied the Japanese army jumped off cliffs rather than be taken prisoner by the Americans. PROLONGED THE GREAT DEPRESSION? Roosevelt didn't solve the great depression(as evidenced by the 1937 recession when gov't spending was cut back) but he did put bread in people's mouths and put enough of them back to work that our Constitutional Democracy survived. Farmers were revolting against the evictions from their farms and there was a real and genuine interest in Communism because many people felt Capitalism had failed. My grandfather, working as a oil driller, a roughneck, in the North Texas oil fields lost his job in 1934 and at age 51 couldn't find another one till 1942, building barracks on Kelley air field in San Antonio. My father's family suffered terribly, they lived in a storefront and my aunts took in washing to make a little money. They ate beans and cabbage to survive, and my dad even got the nickname "Fluff" because he farted so much in school. You Mr. Republican Constitutionalist, DIDN'T LIVE THROUGH THE SITUATION AND DON'T KNOW SHIT!! Sit DOWN and SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!! FDR SHOULD BE ON Mount Rushmore along with his cousin.

[@markwalshopoulos]

Republican Constitutionalist look up operation Unthinkable lmfao

[@burningphoenix6679]

@@republicanconstitutionalis8061 he didn’t prolong the depression. And nothing wrong with appointing liberal judges

[@toddsmitts]

Here was a man from a conservative southern state, whose closest friend and mentor in the senate was Richard Russell, a die-hard segregationist. Yet here was a man who also brought about the first civil rights law since Reconstruction. Here was a man who spoke eloquently on civil rights as VP and turned it into a moral crusade as President. Here was a man who wanted to feed, house, and clothe the poor of all colors. America could sure use a little "Great Society" these days.

[@UnderGroundSkoopTV]

Sheep

[@minewheaties5029]

@@UnderGroundSkoopTV Not at all. We need the end of poverty

[@UnderGroundSkoopTV]

@@minewheaties5029 lmaoo oh yea ? I guess him saying “illhave those niggas voting democrat for 200 yrs” was the first steps in doing that huh ?

[@minewheaties5029]

@@UnderGroundSkoopTV Ice Cube says it in the same way: as a description and not a racial slur

[@UnderGroundSkoopTV]

@Kyle Katarn why dont you go look for it ... its not hard to find

[@DerikSchneider1974USA]

The Vietnam War of course is a big part of President Lyndon Johnson's legacy as it should be but its not the whole story because another part just as big is civil rights. Because without President Johnson African-Americans might of had to of waited another generation to get their full-citizenship equally forced under law. Because no other president post-LBJ had the skills and will to get those laws through Congress.

[@Dunkleosteusenjoyer]

+Derik Schneider Well, if minorities didn't have their rights and the white majority thought they need to, it would have led to the election of presidents and congressman who were more sympathetic to their cause. I also think several of the presidents post LBJ could have done this if needed.

[@scotth9811]

He had a (D) supermajority... a moron could've got it through Congress. Read factual history.

[@highgrove7]

Scott Hughes yes but the southern democrats controlled 11 of the 16 committees

[@minewheaties5029]

@@scotth9811 Wrong. The supermajority had tribe-like differences. LBJ was the master of extortion who could tame vulnerable to hanky-panky.

[@minewheaties5029]

@@Dunkleosteusenjoyer Nope. He had the guts for blackmail, which has not been seen so much anymore.

[@jordanconley3793]

I will never understand the rationale or the mindset that believes one group of people is superior to another. It doesn't even make any sense. There are good and bad in every race and ethnicity, but that doesn't change the fact that we are all entitled to equal protection and participation under the law.

[@squinteastwood4637]

Johnson hated blacks.

[@fundude4566]

+Ian Porter then why did he sign the civil rights act if he hated black people?

[@squinteastwood4637]

Andrew Taylor To get them to vote democrat.

[@squinteastwood4637]

***** It must suck using a biased website like snopes. What a joke you are.

[@JamesBrown-ej1my]

Frank Costello Yep, because facts are biased. Good job there.

[@Thvndar]

Interesting how times have changed. In today's day and world Lyndon Johnson couldn't be elected dog catcher in Texas

[@inspirationrelaxation6189]

And now Georgia has turned blue and Texas is bluer and bluer by the day.

[@wosh253]

@@inspirationrelaxation6189 not for long because republicans are afraid of voter turnout

[@tyronebiggums8660]

It’s so sad that the state which, in the past, brought us Sam Rayburn is, today, that state which brought us Ted Cruz

[@bggraham83]

@@wosh253 nah, more,Mexicans equals more democrats.

[@carlosdasilvasantos3831]

The speeches of LBJ over the Civil rights just means one thing that many many people still not understand. Judge people not for their skin or how they look like. All men are created equal that can no one deny and so we have to act!

[@brother-reeve]

Amen brother

[@EcoNaturale]

50 years!!!! Thank you Lord for equality!

[@melaniev8379]

EcoNaturale Barely.

[@midnightrunner684]

You're Welcome and Thank you For Trump

[@charlesjeffery1155]

I don't know about equality, but I too am happy that we at least got our rights to the same education and restrooms, and not having to ride on the back of a Bus, etc

[@jey70yearsago63]

EcoNaturale this didn’t age well

[@talk_with_spear]

You got to be kidding me?

[@carlosdasilvasantos3831]

He has the gift to look you deep in the eyes and you understand what he means and you’re about to do something

[@toddsmitts]

Who would've though this wily Majority Leader from Texas, whose rise to power was backed by southerners like Richard Russell, who ran a fairly conservative Senate with a firm hand (some might say an iron grip), would turn out to be greatest champion civil rights had in the White House since the Civil War?

[@BuddyNovinski]

Actually he engineered the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and knew just what it would take to get it passed through the Senate. We need him now in the Senate. Later these civil rights acts built upon that Act in 1957. The time was right. The brutal murder of Emmett Till in 1955 finally pushed enough of the public to demand a civil rights act, even though it was quite weak. We have seen the same happen last year, some eleven years after the brutal murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard.

[@doorsovperception]

I regret not being old enough to appreciate LBJ He was like a devoted father to this nation. Like all fathers they're human enough to make mistakes like Vietnam but with the Civil Rights act signed during an election year and other endeavors this clearly shows his love for this country like a father who loves his family.

[@alexcummins5496]

If this speech does not stir something up in your soul you need to seriously take a long look in the mirror

[@darrianguffey6879]

The story behind it would make you think differently

[@steevrawjers]

Amen

[@sandrawilliamson2156]

This man was a racist..big time.

[@TheNewDemocratBlog1975USA]

I have Lyndon Johnson down as our greatest civl rights President. If anyone disagrees with that, I'm happy to hear your case.

[@ItzAngelusPrinze]

haha, he was racist.

[@Phantom5611]

Honestly without LBJ Kennedy would struggle to get these bill passed

[@Cathrope1]

I love how everyone is talking nice about Lyndon Johnson for passing the Civil rights Act when he was against it at first. But when he saw that more Blacks were voting Republican, he changed his stance.

[@gmon3yyb]

Cathrope1 All a ploy to get blacks to vote Democrat. To this day blacks blindly vote Democrat when all they do is hold back the black community.

[@High_rise12]

He wanted to pass it ever since Kennedy wanted it.

[@erice6928]

If what you are saying were correct, then you could give an example of Johnson changing his stance. Until then, I am unconvinced that your claim is correct.

[@nuzayerov]

Go see his "Last Interview". He said there how he did not understand others sufferings until way later in later years of Senate and when Vice President.

[@PhilMitchell-f2n]

Now. ThIs bill is going to pass even if it takes all summer long. And this bill will be signed into law because justice and morality. Demand it.

[@tyronebiggums8660]

Beautiful speech

[@donniecothern9842]

He had Kennady wacked .

[@ebone1988]

@FrsBigeasy In an election year, too! He wasn't worried about his re-election chances, he was worried about the people, and that's what made him great.

[@TennesseeOwnsMyBones]

A very underrated president... His Vietnam policy may have been devastating, Johnson was, along with Roosevelt, one of the few presidents who actively struggled for the common man, the oppressed and the less fortunate. A flawed giant, but a giant nonetheless.

[@chica476]

Except Vietnam, though it would've been difficult to rally the people behind him in regards to not providing aid to the RoV I guess.

[@OfficiallyUnofficialKamala2024]

thanks for posting

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Thank you🙏 MC America.

[@DrSamwpepper]

If vietnam never happend,LBJ would be on mount rushmore.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

He destroyed the United States.

[@ebone1988]

In my opinion, the best President since Lincoln. Vietnam ruined his reputation, but h was the most progressive President in modern history. I would shake his hand if I ever got to meet him, and I am sad that we don't have a President who can work the Congress the way he did.

[@dibrenn3432]

who came here from all the way on hbo? :)

[@jacobcastillo2388]

Haha yup just watched it on Saturday. Very good movie

[@SalivateMetal]

lol Me!!

[@carlosdasilvasantos3831]

Lyndon Johnson has done much more for America than Trump could ever dream of

[@raymercedes7299]

Ofcourse

[@user-jc2ng2xd9n]

I’ll have those n words voting Democratic for the next 200 years Lyndon Johnson

[@kcaruso37]

you are so right. where i am from, Georgia, georgia governors for 131 yrs were democrats, but conservative democrats. Lester maddox a democrat governor from 1967-1971, was a segregationist, he wouldve been a republican in today's standards. yeah, LBJ lost most of the south in the 1964 election, including my state (georgia) Barry goldwater was the republican candidate in the 1964 election. It did changed in the 60's, but when reagan won big in 1980, it shifted the republican party to the south

[@UkeAbuse]

WRONG

[@steevrawjers]

3:14 here it is well put

[@user-wx1uh1fr6t]

My favorite president LBJ

[@mohammadinamullah9380]

His history is hidden. Very few people know about him.

[@tranurse]

@ToxicOdiousOne no, it's offensive we had to pass a law that made it a crime to treat anyone unfairly. as a nation, we should be ashamed that we ever thought it was fair and legal to treat any citizen of this nation as anything less than a citizen.

[@nickofypres]

You can tell, just by looking at his face, his eyes, that he was a man that truly cared about this country and its citizens. Something we haven't seen in a President in a long time.

[@edsli7022]

I'm here after watching the last episoed by the season 2 of "The Godfather Of Harlem"

[@republicanconstitutionalis8061]

1964 Civil Rights Act: House: 80% Republicans 60% Democrats Senate: 82% Republicans 69% Democrats

[@yadadoo20]

LOOL democrats had 66 seats in the senate and 258 seats in the house. republicans were in minority when the bill passed and signed by a Democrat president. I know that hurts but that is a fact

[@ebone1988]

@esb84 Thank you!

[@Bozewani]

I love the indirect allusion to Vietnam "americans in far distant corners of the distant continents)

[@backnumber1662]

Yes he would because as Senate Majority Leader he sponsored the Civil Rights Act 1958

[@ebone1988]

@tranurse And more ashamed that the bill was only passed 48 years ago. We have come quite a long way since then.

[@Guywithafaceconatio]

Seems crazy to me while passing a bill mainly aimed at giving everyone rights(ending segregation laws for e.g.) he never really touches specifically on racial issues. He never says, “this bill means that you cannot deny someone rights based purely on the basis of their skin color” outright. Earlier he says “we shall overcome” in reference to Dr.King but even in that speech he doesn’t ever specify refer to any particular tensions going on in the US…

[@Guywithafaceconatio]

*specifically

[@redditor2112]

Where is the full video?

[@Pepsi_Man_Max]

Would you mind giving me examples of these events?

[@TheeQuirkyPanda]

randomps3stuff what events?

[@dickandballs9106]

randomps3stuff you mean racism in 1960s America? I don't think you need to look very far.

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

MC American President (as it turns out). The President on a mic, I guess.

[@ebone1988]

@lifthz They didn't, that's what's funny about the word "if."

[@cmebans35]

2021 Some are still waiting to see the fulfillment of the US Constitution #RacismInAmerica

[@Popperite]

A colonial society, as there were many, not only in the America's. At last they started to become a nation.

[@KenKlocke]

[@SDG.12]

actually the right wing nuts of LBJ's time were more negotiable than the wingnuts of today.

[@End-Result]

'Not because of their own failures, but because of the deliberate failures of the United States' - sounds more truthful.

[@williammcentee2068]

at 4:23 did he say voted fart

[@naishabatchu]

Lyndon B. Johnson was president when Kamala Harris was a baby

[@TMASR001]

Would Johnson have a second opinion about civil rights if he wasn't influenced by Kennedy?

[@dannyhuskerjay]

he voted for the civil rights act of 57.

[@dickandballs9106]

TMASR001 he influenced Kennedy in the proper direction

[@steevrawjers]

Classic lyndon Johnson

[@wayneedward7391]

His relationship with senetor Russell was never the same after this strong thurman got mad and left the Democratic party everything in history if u had to say which party has helped minorities the most is the republican party Johnson worked with the senetor from Illinois to get this bill passed

[@jahpree2189]

He literally killed JFK but okay..

[@juliewitt7496]

JFK killer.

[@tariqcampbell5106]

Johnson > Kennedy

[@liltree8382]

You smoking crack

[@julianG1212]

Why can’t more democrats be like him

[@skip031890]

Democrats did not support this bill. Interesting how he downplays that in this video.

[@thematt523]

A large majority of Democrats voted for it, just not Southern Democrats.

[@skip031890]

@@thematt523 That is not true. Democrats all over the country were on the same page. 🙄

[@cheesebeef4902]

I cant one speech on the civil right bill. Not one may your just a clown 🤡

[@vagabond686]

LBJ a socialist? You're kidding right?

[@PhilMitchell-f2n]

Now. ThIs bill is going to pass even if it takes all summer long. And this bill will be signed into law because justice and morality. Demand it.