Poverty
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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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Address at the Luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Americana Hotel, New York City
It is our experience that physical and economic isolation of any group in our society causes it to fall behind. We are a highly mobile society, and our mobility causes interaction, stimulation, and progress. Isolation brings stagnation and retrogression.
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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 Luncheon of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Americana Hotel, New York City
Our purpose in ending the isolation of the ghetto is no different in the end from our purpose in trying to restore vigor to the life of Appalachia. In both cases it is the inevitable or erosion of the spirit which isolation has brought that we seek to counteract.
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Address at the Law Day Ceremonies of the Virginia State Bar, Roanoke, Virginia
Some people in the world today do not see law as the instrument of freedom and justice. Too frequently the whole tradition of stare decisis appears to tie the law to the status quo; and a written Constitution means little to a man who cannot remember his last meal and does not know where his…
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Statement on the Food Stamp Program before Senate Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation
When I was in Mississippi with the Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, I saw conditions of extreme hunger. I saw people who eat only one meal a day or one meal every two days.
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Senate Speech
We are increasingly an island of affluence and privilege in a world of desperate poverty—
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Senate Speech
The population of this globe grows every day, nowhere faster than in the underdeveloped nations.
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Senate Speech
It is not given to us to right every wrong, to make perfect all the imperfections of the world. But neither is it given to us to sit content in our store houses—dieting while others starve, buying 8 million new cars a year while most of the world goes without shoes. We are simply not…
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Statement at the Union Baptist Church, New York, New York
Some 75 percent of those addicted to heroin come from the 20 percent of society with the lowest incomes. Until there are enough jobs to go around, until everyone has a decent home and a decent education, until we have uniformly stable and secure family structures—in short, until the world is a much better place…
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Address at the Third Annual WGHQ Human Relations Award Dinner, Ellenville, New York
We should not be disappointed that Community Action has not been an instant success. It has been a long time since most leadership in this country has spoken to the poor and tried to understand the problems of their existence.
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