Since we're spending so much time talking about the bill, we should probably also take a peek at what LBJ had to say about the bill.

At its heart, hisspeech digs back to the promises made to the American people in the name of equality. All too often, our central creeds feel like lip service—we talk the talk, but seem to have a little bit of a struggle when it comes to walking the walk. And, as he clearly states, that is a problem that all Americans have a genuine stake in correcting.

Also crucially, he makes an explicit notice that discrimination is more than racist attacks; it's baked into our legal systems, and the people who enforce them. No law has power if it's ignored, after all.

But, with this act, the federal government can continue to move closer and closer to that affirmation made a couple of hundred years prior: that "all men are created equal."