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men are held in bondage by some other men - both intolerable and insufferable.

That problem is race. It is race that elected our present President in 1968; race that makes some Americans serve and die more readily than others in Vietnam; race that makes some children more educated than others; race that colors all of our lives.

For the past several years abundant solutions to the problem of race, and this therefore to the pathologies of society that spring from it, have been more than abundant.

There are several solutions that, if implemented, would begin to make this country a proper place for men and women to live and work and a healthy place for our children to play and grow and learn.

The nation can could adopt, and strive for, a policy of full employment.

Equal opportunity, both racially and sexually, can stop being the rhetoric of campaigns and platforms and become the reality of the present.

Through public service employment, increased economic growth increase increases in wage minimums and in minimum wage coverage, and in guaranteeing social insurance by radically altering public assistance, every American can be guaranteed an income.

The institution of a national health insurance program and a radical alteration of federal housing programs will additionally aid in making both urban and rural America more attractive places to live.

None of these things will be done, however, unless there is increased

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