Children are growing up today in a post-Cold War era of unbearable dissonance
between promise and performance,
between good politics and good policy,
between America's racial creed and Americas racial deed,
between professed and practiced family values,
between calls for community and rampant individualism and greed,
between our capacity to prevent child deprivation and disease and our
political and spiritual will to do so in the richest nation on Earth.
Marion Wright Edelman (1995)