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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 the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

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.

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.

We can be more inclusive.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.

We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

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.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.