Mr. President. the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. enacted under a very different political and moral climate from that which prevails today. was established on the false assumption of the superiority of northern Europeans over the other racial. cultural. and national categories of mankind. Though this doctrine is seldom overtly acknowledged by proponents of the present immigration statutes. this is the major rationale for the attempt to maintain the inequities in our current quota system. This quota system was neither wise nor equitable when it was established in 1952. and it is completely anachronistic in this year of 1965. During the past 2 years. the American people and the American Congress have made a final and irrevocable commitment to the principle that equal opportunities shall not be denied a citizen of this country for reasons of race. color or national origin. The actions of this Congress and the actions of the prior 88th Congress repeatedly asserted that the talents and individual capabilities of a person are not determined or limited by his national or racial origins.
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False assumption of the superiority of northern Europeans over other racial, cultural, and national categories of mankind.