Poverty
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Reflections on the 1965 Watts Riots: State Convention, Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Tags Share I want to speak to you tonight about some of the events of the last week: about the dead and the orphans of the rioting in Los Angeles; about the sick and the distressed of all our urban ghettos; about the hatred and the fear and the brutality we saw in Los angeles;…
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Address to the National Council of Christians and Jews
Tags Share The unfinished business at hand is the most difficult and dangerous that we have ever faced. Today’s problems of intolerance are harder than yesterday’s; tomorrow’s will be harder still. One reason for this difficulty is that racial intolerance is harder to combat than religious intolerance. Most people, after all, have to be told…
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Speech at the University of California at Berkeley
Tags Share The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects. Rather it will belong to those who blend passion, reason, and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and…
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Commencement Address at Queens College
Tags Share Around the world—from the Straits of Magellan to the Straits of Malacca, from the Nile delta to the Amazon basin, in Jaipur and Johannesburg—the dispossessed people of the world are demanding their place in the sun. For uncounted centuries, they have lived with hardship, with hunger and disease and fear. For the last…
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Address at the California Institute of Technology
Tags Share Many years ago, Albert Einstein addressed the students of this institute. “It is not enough,” he said, “that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man’s blessings.” And he added, “Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors,…
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Remarks at a “Friendly Sons Dinner” in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Tags Share I’m aware, of course, of the notable number of sons of St. Patrick who live here in Scranton, and as a son of St. Patrick myself, I know how friendly you’ve been—to President Kennedy in everything he did—and to me whenever I’ve been here. So I think of these things in addition to…
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Lecture to faculty and students at Nihon University
Tags Share Young men and women of my age in all countries, if they share nothing else, share the problems that torment our world and thus share responsibilities for all our futures. Our generation was born during the turmoil following the first World War. That war marked the dividing line—at least for the Western World—between…
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Address to the National Committee for Children and Youth Conference in Unemployed
Tags Share Many people have asked me what connection the Department of Justice has with a conference on unemployment concerning out-of-school youths in urban areas. You may be wondering too. The reason is: Today, the Department of Justice, through the Bureau of Prisons, is providing institutional care and treatment for more than five thousand juvenile…
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Speech at the Borough President’s Conference of Community Leaders
Tags Share Since the dawn of their freedom a century ago, Negro Americans have been advised to “cast down your bucket where you are.” But those who offered this advice too often did not bother to look at whether its recipient was standing by a river of opportunity—or in the midst of a desert from…
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Speech at the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York
Tags Share My remarks today are the first in a series of three speeches about one major aspect of the unfinished business that is ahead: the quality of life for the Negro in the urban areas of the North. I do not mean to downgrade the problems that remain in the South. But my purpose…
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Combating Poverty
Learners engage in interactive activities and examine the financial and social constraints that may prohibit impoverished people from securing loans and credit.
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A Legacy of Combating Urban Poverty
We explore Robert F. Kennedy’s legacy of urban economic justice through the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth In Action and Rami Nashashib.
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