“The problems of the school, we have been told, are intimately related to those of the city. Commissioner [of Education Harold] Howe said that we cannot have good schools if we have bad cities. I would agree with this statement, but I would carry it a step further: We cannot have good cities unless we have a good nation. And to have a good nation, we must face, once and for all, the problems of poverty and race. Only through the formulation of a national program to eliminate poverty and racial discrimination can we lay the basis for a good, let alone a great, society.” SchoolCitiesEducationPovertyRacial DiscriminationSociety Racism Book:Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin