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Remarks Introducing the Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, US Senate

July 12, 1967

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Washington, D.C.

More than segregation and housing and schools, more than differences and attitudes or lifestyle, it is unemployment which marks the urban poor off and apart from the rest of America. Unemployment is having nothing to do—which means having nothing to do with the rest of us.

New year, new us. Same mission.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights is rebranding to honor the legacy of our founder and hero, Mrs. Ethel Skakel Kennedy. From now on, we will proudly be known as the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

While our name is changing, our mission and work remain the same. We will continue to fight injustice, advance human rights, and hold governments accountable around the world in 2026 and beyond.