Jonathan Kozol Quote

But just as legal segregation in the South was a huge national horror hidden in plain view, so too the massive desolation of the intellect and spirits and the human futures of these millions of young people in their neighborhoods of poverty is yet another national horror hidden in plain view; and it is so enormous and it has its ganglia implanted so profoundly in the culture as we know it, that we’re going to have to build another movement if we hope to make it visible. Choosing his words deliberately, Wilkins spoke of what he termed the small-minded triumphalism of contemporary political leaders who grew up in isolated worlds of white male privilege and have, as a result, inadequate education for the responsibilities they hold.