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Only universal opportunity — safety, health, and viable education — can repel the danger nesting in our kill zones. Just ask the military.
Until we extend the ladder of self-determination to the children trapped in our barrios, ghettos, reservations, suburban Sowetos, rural rust belts, and hidden hollers of Appalachia, we cannot indulge the rich getting richer ever faster.
"- Connie Rice, in her book, Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman’s Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones, (p. 321)
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