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follow them. I want to find a way,” said he, “where parents will not be able to take their kids and send them to private school or parochial school and not have racial balance.” To me it was an idiotic statement. He would somehow or other prevent people from doing this even in the private or parochial sector.

What I want to make clear is this: I believe that we should have the severest penalties for people who would stop the black, nonwhite and those who want to move into areas that they can afford to move into and are prevented in any way by actions of private citizens. There's no question that government today cannot prevent you from moving where you can afford Government today quite correctly has the role and quite correctly of enforcing law which precludes racial discrimination in areas of employment and housing, and it isn't always enforced, but the law is there and it should be enforced. And when I read about somebody on Staten Island or maybe Queens planting a cross or throwing garbage on somebody's lawn or doing some indignity, I'd like to put that person in jail -- not just a fine but put that person in jail. And the bottom line here is that people who have the same life style, and I'm talking about economics -- low income, middle income, the wealthy -- they have a right, an absolute right, to live and buy the things that they can afford to buy. But there's something wrong in my judgment about government saying that people of a different economic life style shall be picked up and put into the area with government money of people with another life style. And that means the low-income people that are on poverty levels and on welfare in so many cases -- to have them picked up and put into a middle class area on the