Jonathan Kozol Quote

Competition at the local high school, said another Great Neck parent, was unhealthy. He described the toll it took on certain students. Children in New York may suffer from too little. Many of our children suffer from too much. The loss of distinctions in these statements serves to blur the differences between the inescapable unhappiness of being human and the needless misery created by injustice. It also frees the wealthy from the obligation to concede the difference between inconvenience and destruction.