If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on...
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum...
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized...
No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains they're...
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given...
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest...
The primary victims of Katrina those who were given the least help by the...
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are...
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in...
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far...
I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent...
That a society controls to a greater or lesser extent the behavior of its...
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric of strong rights for...
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences...
I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out...
In emerging democracies like Russia in authoritarian states like Iran or...
Well you got to remember bin Laden killed 3 000 Americans and in some ways...
You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain...
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further...