Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That this nation come to grips with the immediate and pressing need to enforce federal statutes and Court decisions which mandate an end to racial discrimination...
...judgement, the record is transpicuously clear, the nation, its institutions and those who made the decisions to grant or deny opportunity have been grossly unfair to those persons who have suffered from the real affirmative discrimination, both past and present, in American society. And we know that the mere enactment of Congressional legislation, or the issuance of a Presidential Executive Order is not enough. An Act, in and of itself, is not the essence of reform. Laws and Orders are not yet self-executing...
...must remind the nation and its institutions that Congress was not colorblind when it enacted the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution. We must insist that the country recognize that the United States Supreme Court was talking about Black people and racial discrimination when it pronounced the Brown decision...
...obey the law of the land is not punishment, but freedom! We must inform America that true educational opportunity is not found on the speedometer of a school bus. In many districts, in fact, the amount of bussing formerly used to maintain segregated schools. We are asking the nation as a whole to unite. We have said to the country that unless we face the opportunities and the problems as a nation, willing to share and solve, we shall surely all share in a future of greater chaos and deterioration...
...convinced that this country needs only the will to eliminate poverty. It is a matter of priorities and it is a matter of honesty. This nation has the means. We have both the human and physical resources...