Economic Equality
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Speech Delivered at Sioux City, Des Moines, Marion and Dubuque, Iowa
I believe the time has already come when the first two years of college—just like elementary school or high school—should be free to all qualified students.
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Speech at Academy of Trial Lawyers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The legitimate purpose of bail is to ensure that defendants appear for trial. It has been distorted into systematic injustice. Every year thousands of persons are kept in jail for weeks and even months following arrest.
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Remarks, Introducing Bill for Industrial Investment in Urban Poverty Areas, U.S. Senate
To rely exclusively, even primarily, on government efforts is not only to ignore the shaping traditions of American life and politics, but to ignore the potential contribution of private enterprise is to fight the war on poverty with a single platoon, while great armies are left to stand aside.
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Address, Testimonial Dinner for Lieutenant Governor Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin
The challenges and the dreams touch every man and woman and child in America—and in the world. There is challenge in automation, which could mean widespread permanent unemployment in this country
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The path of innovation is never easy. Change is always painful. But it is the only path with the promise of saving our cities,
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Address at the New York City Columbus Day Dinner
An America piled high with gold, and clothed in impenetrable armor, yet living among desperate and poor nations in a chaotic world, could neither guarantee its own security nor pursue the dream of a civilization devoted to the fulfillment of man.
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Address at the Testimonial Dinner for Congressman John Dow, Sterling Forest, New York
In many ways Wall Street is closer to London than it is to Harlem, a few miles Uptown; Scarsdale is often closer to Paris than to Selma, Alabama; and Americans in Appalachia are in many ways closer to the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro than they are to the society in which you and I…
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
In our country it is no longer enough to count the poor, to sympathize with the Negro struggle for equality, to watch with sadness the decay of our urban life. We must acknowledge—and do something to change the facts of our present life.
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Address at the American Medical Center Judy Holliday Memorial Dinner, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City
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.
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Statement
The right of agricultural workers around the country to organize into unions and bargain collectively has now been recognized in the fields of one grower in California
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Over 100K sign tipped wage ballot petition
Tags Share The Boston Herald notes Kerry Kennedy’s involvement in a new ballot initiative that seeks to provide a standard minimum wage for tipped workers. Read the full article for more information about the One Fair Wage campaign.
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2023 Freedom Award ceremony: Stacey Abrams, Kerry Kennedy and Clayborne Carson honored
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.
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