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There still remains the possibility that a small number of students will be singled out for some sort of punishment. That course of action is foolish and illogical. It is also unjust. The random selection of scapegoats would foster rancor instead of reflection, and would create martyrs where there is now simply an array of advocates...
Planned Parenthood is another favorite target. "They have tried to stop me every inch of the way; they tell the poor to come to them; I go to the poor. They help only married people and they don't have the guts to challenge the unjust laws in this state. They're not helping me because they are a big corporate concern and they had a monopoly on birth control matters until I entered the picture...
Wherever that 10 per cent may be, it is apparent by now that they are not in Boston. Here in this city, as in so much of this violent and unjust and undemocratic nation, Negro children every day of their lives are denied an equal share in the advertised pleasures of their country. Negro kids enter Bostons ghetto schools with the same expectations and the same motivations as children all over America. They come, as other children do, with faces bright, with hopes held high, with energy, with dreams, with expectation. For six years, eight years, ten years, 12 years...
They come in hopeful, credulous. They leave, hearts broken, hating, filled with cynicism: a cynicism, however, which is never quite equal to that which our unjust white society breeds, fosters and deserves...
...After reading your review of Bonnie and Clyde [Aug. 25], I had to write to you. I can't remember being as upset with anything you've written about films as I am with this unjust, unfair and just plain unkind rap at one of the finest films ever projected on the American screen. The production, technique, the performances and the direction, the whole attitude of what a film should be is there to see and understand. Why don't you people stick to writing about politics and, I might add, try reviewing some of the politicians...