He said that life in some of our cities is like a fast running river. Some people make it on their own. Some can make it with a little help from someone downstream. Others get washed out to sea, and never have a chance to live. What we must do is travel further upstream, and find out how they're getting in the water to start with.
Jails are basically warehouses for people that have committed crimes.
In the U.S. there are hundreds of thousands of inmates in these jails. If you took the cost of 1,000 inmates for one year, you could build a new school. Mr. Jordan said that we have to be honest with ourselves, about the goals, and which challenges we are willing to meet. If you stop a minute to think about all the people who are working to make our communities better, they are doing it for you and me. If we don't help them now, we won't know how to do things when we grow up.