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Many Of Us Regard Ourselves As Mildly Liberal Or Centrist Politically, Voice Fairly Pleasant Sentiments About Our Poor Children, Contribute Money To Send Poor Kids To Summer Camp, Feel Benevolent. We're Not Nazis; We're Nice People. We Read Sophisticated Books. We Go To Church. We Go To Synagogue. Meanwhile, We Put Other People's Children Into An Economic And Environmental Death Zone. We Make It Hard For Them To Get Out. We Strip The Place Bare Of Amenities. And We Sit Back And Say To Ourselves, "well, I Hope That They Don't Kill Each Other Off. But If They Do, It's Not My Fault.

The Answers I Remember Longest Are The Ones That Answer Questions That I Didn't Think Of Asking.

If You Could Lead Through Testing, The U.s. Would Lead The World In All Education Categories. When Are People Going To Understand You Don't Fatten Your Lambs By Weighing Them?

Hypersegregated Inner-city Schools - In Which One Finds No More Than Five Or Ten White Children, At The Very Most, Within A Student Population Of As Many As 3,000 - Are The Norm, Not The Exception, In Most Northern Urban Areas Today.

I Beg People Not To Accept The Seasonal Ritual Of Well-timed Charity On Christmas Eve. It's Blasphemy.