Second, we must open opportunity to all our people.
Most Americans enjoy a good life. But far too many are still trapped in
poverty and idleness and fear.
Let a just nation throw open to them the city of promise:
--to the elderly, by providing hospital care under social security and by
raising benefit payments to those struggling to maintain the dignity of
their later years;
--to the poor and the unfortunate, through doubling the war against poverty
this year;
--to Negro Americans, through enforcement of the civil rights law and
elimination of barriers to the right to vote;
--to those in other lands that are seeking the promise of America, through
an immigration law based on the work a man can do and not where he was born
or how he spells his name.