I've read in the papers, as you do, about juvenile delinquency. I've always had a feeling that the problem in America is not juvenile delinquency, but adult delinquency. Our children are not failing us—it is we who are failing our children.

— Walter Reuther Address before the National Council for Social Studies of the National Education Association (1956)

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