We can be more inclusive.
We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.
So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
We can fight Big Industry.
These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.
The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.
We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.
