So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.