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...condemn the Boston School Committee for playing upon many white people's racist fears to divert attention from its own failure to educate Boston's schoolchildren. We believe that the problems of Boston's schools are not caused by students, white or black (as the School Committee would have us believe) but by the School Committee's refusal to provide adequate facilities, teachers, or materials...
...across America, thousands of little schoolchildren have been ordered to board countless numbers of buses to be carried across neighborhood, city, and county lines in order to achieve some magical racial mixing of bodies which satisfies the arbitrary and absurd sociological notions of misguided federal judges and bureaucrats. In Michigan, in Maryland, in North Carolina, in Virginia, and in many other states--north, south, east and west--some of our federal courts have defied the very meaning of "equal protection of the law" by assigning and transporting helpless schoolchildren on the basis of race, creed, and color...
...racial quotas and racial balancing to effectuate a constitutional principle which forbids government to treat people differently on account of their race. Quite clearly the federal courts have perverted and distorted the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as it has been applied to the assignment of schoolchildren to the public schools...
...Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of Education. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court passed over its most recent opportunity to strike a blow for freedom. Indeed, by sustaining the order of the federal district court requiring the massive busing of schoolchildren to achieve racial balance in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County schools, the Supreme Court seems to have closed the door to any hope that our courts will return to a reasonable interpretation of the equal protection clause. Despite statements to the contrary--statements constructed upon a tortuous use of the English language...
...senseless busing of innocent little children for the purpose of achieving racial balance. The proposed constitutional amendment introduced on January 23, 1973, by Senator Allen (D-Ala.) and me will put an end to the judicial and bureaucratic tyranny which has imposed this terrible hardship on millions of our schoolchildren and their parents...