“This is our basic conclusion: Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal…. “The vital needs of the nation must be met; hard choices must be made, and, if necessary, new taxes enacted. “Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans. “What white Americans have never understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”
