Just what did Paul say about the Civil Rights Act?

Ron Paul, speech in Congress on the 40th Anniv. of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

"The Trouble with the '64 Civil Rights Act" by Ron Paul.
"....the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty."
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave the federal government unprecedented power over the hiring, employee relations, and customer service practices of every business in the country. The result was a massive violation of the rights of private property and contract, which are the bedrocks of free society. The federal government has no legitimate authority to infringe on the rights of private property owners to use their property as they please and to form (or not form) contracts with terms mutually agreeable to all parties. The rights of all private property owners, even those whose actions decent people find abhorrent, must be respected if we are to maintain a free society.
"This expansion of federal power was based on an erroneous interpretation of the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. The framers of the Constitution intended the interstate commerce clause to create a free trade zone among the states, not to give the federal government regulatory power over every business that has any conection with interstate commerce."
"....Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitutuin and reduced individual liberty, it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could insure an employer was not violating the ...Act... was to ensure that the racial composition of a business workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats bega forcing employers to hire by racial quota......these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife.
"America has made great strides in race relations over the past forty years. However, this progress is due to changes in public attitudes and private efforts. Relations between the races have improved despite, not because of, the 1964 Civil Rights Act."