"The Free School is established as our answer to an unjust order; yet the money which infuses small foundations, family charitable trusts, and Ford and Carnegie alike, is in itself one portion of that order, and the charitable trusts and the benevolent foundations in themselves constitute one elemental item in its superstructure. Large numbers of the executives in both large and middle-sized foundations take, as it were, an interchangeable series of positions: this year with Ford, last year with OEO, next year with the CIA...or back to Princeton...It does not require the reading of a left-wing radical polemic, nor even a particularly harsh and strident ideological position to look at the printed list along the masthead of the large or middle-sized foundation and to recognize there the names of just those men who plan our wars, control our armies, advise our presidents, govern our banks, hire our police and lay down the invisible demarcations of our ghettos. To ignore this point, and to assume that we are dealing, in the middle-sized and large foundations, with the antithesis of government and with the well-groomed representatives of the cheated and poor, to assume that next year's Ford Foundation will be different from this year's CIA or last year's OEO is to exist in dreamland." Kozol

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