Nomination of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on the Confirmation of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General of the United States, June 4, 5, and 18, 1985, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 1037 pages |
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Page 16 - Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
Page 223 - commencement address at Howard University: You do not take a person, who for years has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say you are free to compete with all the others, and still just believe that you have been completely fair.
Page 16 - In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
Page 755 - provides: No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any state or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States
Page 946 - a dream that little children will one day live in a Nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but
Page 661 - the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975
Page 755 - of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2). The fact that members of a minority group have not been elected in numbers equal to the group's proportion of the population shall not, in and of itself, constitute a violation of this section.
Page 308 - VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, many
Page 650 - All things being equal, with no history of discrimination. It might well be desirable to assign pupils to schools nearest to their homes. But all things are not equal In a system that has been deliberately constructed and maintained to enforce racial segregation.. .[Transportation has been an integral part of the public education system for years...Desegregation plans cannot be
Page 18 - Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the