Economic Equality
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Human Rights Defender Spotlight: Darrick Hamilton and Dr. Helen Bond
Tags Share Darrick Hamilton: Economic Rights What are Economic Rights? Economic rights are human rights that relate to the workplace, social security and access to housing, food, water, healthcare and education. They include the right to fair wages and equal pay; the right to adequate protection in the event of unemployment, sickness or old age;…
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Remarks to medical students on federally subsidized healthcare
The students fired off questions challenging Kennedy on medical care for the poor, which they characterized as too expensive, unnecessary, or best left to the marketplace. Ultimately a student asked, “Where are you going to get all the money for these federally subsidized programs you’re talking about?”
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Remarks Introducing the Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, US Senate
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.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Have you ever told a coal miner in West Virginia or Kentucky that what he needs is individual initiative to go out and get a job where there isn’t any?
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Speech at the Dedication of the John F. Kennedy Interfaith Chapel at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Georgia
Opportunity denied or opportunity delayed—often one and the same—is not a question of color. One-tenth of our population is Negro. But a much larger portion of our total population, closer to one-fifth, is poor.
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Address Delivered to the American Bar Association, House of Delegates, San Francisco, California
Legal services, particularly defense in criminal cases, are not like houses or automobiles where those with more money can buy better products without affecting the basic functioning of society. When one defendant cannot afford a complete defense, justice is being rationed.
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Speech at the University of Alabama
It is for us now, in New York and Alabama and all over the nation, to create new kinds of systems, for education and health, and work and housing; systems which will bring one fifth of America, for the first time, into the 20th century, into a society which creates and opens new opportunities even…
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Address at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
When Marshall McLuhan told us that in this century, ” the medium is the message, ” he was doing more than merely giving us a phrase to go with “Keep the faith, baby.”
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
We have a responsibility to ourselves, to the next generation to consider the future.
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
I believe the solution to the problems of our urban ghettoes must begin with a determination and a program.
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Address at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Banquet, New York
We have asked the people of our urban ghettos to the breakfast of hope; but the supper of fulfillment we eat without them. Breakfast has long ago been eaten and hunger again walks the streets. It is time to make room at the table.
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Address at the Society of Friends of Puerto Rico Eugenio Maria de Hostos “One-America” Award Dinner, New York City
The dispossessed and the landless will not strive and sacrifice to improve land they do not own, and whose proceeds they do not share.
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