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Jonathan Kozol

“I want to correct something I told you once,' she says. 'You asked me once if I thought white people wish that Puerto Rican and black people would just die or go away. I thought it over and I changed my mind. I don’t think they wish that we would die. I think they wish that we were never born. Now that we’re here, I think they don’t know what they ought to do. I think that that’s the biggest problem in their minds about poor people.' She adds politely, 'I’m not talkin’ about all of the white people. Some of them feel this way. Some of them don’t. Some of them don’t feel nothin’. Some are nice people but they can’t get nothin’ done and so they put it out of mind.”

Jonathan Kozol, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
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Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol
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