You may ask, will we enforce the civil rights statutes? The answer is, “Yes, we will.” We will also enforce the antitrust laws, the anti-racketeering laws, the laws against kidnapping and robbing Federal banks and transporting stolen automobiles across state lines, the illicit traffic in narcotics and all the rest . . . I hold a constitutional office of the United States Government, and I shall perform the duty I have sworn to undertake: to enforce the law, in every field of law, without regional bias or political slant.
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Law Day Address, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
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