Charity Isn't A Good Substitute For Justice.

It Is A Commonplace By Now To Say That The Urban School Systems Of America Contain A Higher Percentage Of Negro Children Each Year.

Political Struggle Is The Most Important Thing Any Of Us Can Do As A Citizen In A Democracy; And That Means The Old Joining The Young To Fight For Elemental Kinds Of Justice.

We Know That Segregation Is Evil. We Know That The Sickest Children Should Not Go To The Worst Hospitals.

In Public Schooling, Social Policy Has Been Turned Back Almost One Hundred Years.

Childhood Is Not Merely Basic Training For Utilitarian Adulthood. It Should Have Some Claims Upon Our Mercy, Not For Its Future Value To The Economic Interests Of Competitive Societies But For Its Present Value As A Perishable Piece Of Life Itself.