"Sam, why don't you all let this nigger bill pass?"
— Nigger

January 1, 1970

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Said by Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn (D-TX) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in