Time and time again the American people, facing danger and seemingly insurmountable odds, have mobilized the ingenuity, resourcefulness, strength and bravery to meet the situation and triumph. In this long and critical struggle, the American system of free enterprise must be our major weapon. We must continue to prove to the world that we can…
The great challenge to all Americans—indeed all free men and women— is to maintain loyalty to truth; to maintain loyalty to free institutions; to maintain loyalty to Freedom as a basic human value, and above all else to keep in our hearts and minds the tolerance and mutual trust that have been the genius of…
In the past five years the winds of change have blown as fiercely in the United States as anywhere in the world, and they will not—they cannot—abate.
It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, which can determine destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only…
The signers of the Constitution, for all their foresight, couldn’t have dreamed of the America we live in today. The remarkable thing is that their work is as alive and as meaningful for us as it was for them—and as it will be for our grandchildren.
Old age is something that happens to everybody, and if we are wise enough and unselfish enough and effective enough, then we can make those years a time in which to live, not just linger.
Born in Baltimore City, Maryland, in 1988, Maybin competed as an All-American linebacker at Penn State University before being chosen as the 11th overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills. After a five-year career with the New York Jets and the Cincinnati Bengals, he chose to leave the NFL in 2014…
One of the most courageous people the civil rights movement ever produced, U.S. Congressman John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he described as “The Beloved Community” in America. The “conscience of the U.S. Congress” grew up as the son of sharecroppers. He was inspired by…
Tags Share “We no longer want to be a nation in which it is better to be rich and guilty than poor and innocent.” The Commercial Appeal covers the 2023 Freedom Award ceremony, noting our president Kerry Kennedy’s “rousing speech” and powerful commentary.
Tags Share New York, NY, October 5, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR), American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana (ACLU-LA), and New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), today filed five Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to obtain records from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding policies and practices within the New…
Tags Share Memphis Magazine features our president Kerry Kennedy as one of the 2023 Freedom Award recipients from the National Civil Rights Museum.
This case seeks justice for the extrajudicial killing of Mike Brown and violations of the human rights of Mike and his mother Lezley McSpadden under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
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