Poverty
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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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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.
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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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Statement Before Students in Peru
We are finding that it is not enough to feed and clothe and house a man—or even to give him work. Instead we are finding that the most important thing is to help men to help themselves. This is the most difficult task of all.
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Reverend Allyn Maxfield-Steele
Woodard Henderson, a self-proclaimed working-class Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), was born and raised in southeast Tennessee. She has been a Highlander board member since 2012 and co-executive director since 2017. All along, she has been an activist on issues of mountaintop removal mining and environmental racism, with a focus in central and southern Appalachia, and an…
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Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman was born in 1939 in Bennettsville, South Carolina. She was the youngest of five children. It was the Jim Crow era South, with laws mandating every manner of exclusion for African Americans—always segregated and separated. There were drinking fountains labeled for “colored” people, restaurants could refuse service, and public buses had a…
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in the seaport city of Chittagong, Bangladesh—British India, at the time. After attending Dhaka University, he earned a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University and received his Ph.D. in economics there in 1969. Returning to Bangladesh, Yunus headed the economics department at Chittagong University, where he was…
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Loune Viaud
Loune Viaud, Director of Operations and Strategic Planning at Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health—Haiti), has worked with Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights since 2002, when she received the RFK Human Rights Award. Loune was recognized for her innovative human rights-based approach to establishing health care systems in Haiti. Loune was honored, not only for her…
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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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‘With This Light’ panel examines Honduran nun’s social justice legacy
Tags Share The Catholic faith, feminism and human rights work in Latin America have long been important to Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. They’ll all converge in a new way May 22, as Kennedy, bestselling author of Being Catholic Now, takes part in a panel alongside the “With This Light” film…
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Healthcare
Tags Share Loune Viaud’s remarks at 2002 RFK Human Rights Award ceremony I am grateful to the Kennedy family for this prestigious recognition and thankful to the staff of the RFK Memorial for all their hard work in getting the ceremony together. I also want to thank the staff of Partners in Health, and the…
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