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POVERTY OF EDUCATION
SANCHEZ

right people are not feeling guilty (such as the majority of the Congress, especially the committee chairmen, the top officials of the Agriculture Department, and the President). In President Johnson's farm message of February 1968 he mentioned rural poverty only superficially and proposed to spend the major farm appropriations for more price supports for already prosperous farmers. 

Will knowledge and guilt give us an uneasy conscience but not the determination to save our country from chaos? Will we convince ourselves to live with our social neurosis because the solutions seem so difficult and controversial? Now we feel sorry about Mississippi and Brownsville (New York) but are physically and mentally separated from the tragedies we read about. 

One must keep on hoping that the growing knowledge of unpleasant facts, to which the presidential commission reports are an important but not decisive contribution, will lead us, the successful products of American society, to take our stand on the side of justice. If we are joined by those who are powerful in more than book learning, then, maybe, the truth will really make us all free. 

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