Even now. at the end of a hundred years. these goals have not been completely won. Only this summer. the civil rights bill. which so greatly implements the principles of equal democracy for all. has become law. Yet. immigration legislation. which would extend the guarantees of democracy without discrimination to immigrants of every race and nation. is still in committee. awaiting the will of Congress. Both these massive extensions of human rights and brotherhood were chiefly the work of another great President. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. who was martyred last year by an assassins bulletJust as Abraham Lincoln was martyred a century ago.
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