Reply #6: her point is irrefutable [View All]

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MLK Jr. brought passion and made Civil Rights the huge, inevitable issue it was and should have been. President Johnson did everything politically a President can do, working with the mechanisms inherent in the Congress and Senate to get the legislation passed.

MLK Jr.'s passion and sacrifice for change was necessary and instrumental, but may not have been as influential in the long run had it not been supported by LBJ's political and legislative know-how, making the ramifications of MLK Jr's experience an irrefutable legal Reality.

Hope is not enough. Legislation and experience is not enough. The two are, and should be, intertwined.