Tonight President Bill Clinton will be speaking at the #CivilRightsSummit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library to mark the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Watch President Clinton's remarks live at 6pmCT/7pmET: www.clintonfoundation.org/civilrightssummit
“In the past, when we've had the courage to face the truth about our failure to live up to our own best ideals, we've grown stronger, moved forward, and restored proud American optimism. At such turning points, America moved to preserve the Union and abolish slavery, to embrace women's suffrage, to guarantee basic legal rights to America without regard to race, under the leadership of President Johnson. At each of these moments, we looked in the national mirror and were brave enough to say, this is not who we are; we're better than that.” – President Clinton, October 16, 1995, University of Texas, Address on Race Relations
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