Bussing Quotes

When we finally got school buses for African American students in Georgia, the state legislature ordained that the front bumpers be painted black. Not even the school busses could be equal.

You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.

The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed.

I have consistently opposed forced bussing to achieve integration.

Forget they are white children. Forget they are black children. Just remember one thing. They are America's children.

Society continues to pay the bill for the school segregation that was a part of our history.

In approaching this problem [school desegregation], we cannot turn the clock back...

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a choice.

I am opposed to busing for the purpose of achieving racial balance in our schools.

I favor school integration. I do not favor mandatory busing. The only kids who were bused are the poor children. The rich parents either move or put the kid in private schools.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

None of the proposed inter-city solutions would have offered more frequent or more affordable service than existing options like bussing. Busses can also be easily re-routed around gas leaks, car accidents, or traffic congestion.

Busing has only achieved white flight.