Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180907:16:33:00
Inducted both parties. southern democrats were the bigger defenders of slavery. it took a republican president, abraham lincoln, to end it. dixi-crats filibustered opposed expanding rights. though it was a democratic congress spurred on by young marchers and protesters that got the civil rights and voting rights act over the finish line, those historic laws also got passed because of the leadership of republicans like illinois' own everett dirksen. so neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom. neither party has been exclusively responsible for us