Speech Before Congress on Voting Rights (1965) by Lyndon Johnson 1 I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy..... At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans, Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed.... This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, North and South: "All men are created equal." " the * Previous 9 What is the MAIN purpose of the last paragraph of President Johnson's 1965 speech?

O to anticipate and reject any counterarguments
O to prepare a case for the Supreme Court
O to cite the legal precedents for his claims
Oto portray the struggle as an international one​