The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of basic training for the adult years that many of the poorest children may not even live to know.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

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.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.