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

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

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

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

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

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.