Tags Share It is clear by now that 1968 will go down as the year the new politics of the next decade or more begin. It is the year when the existing political wisdom had proven unable to cope with the turbulence of our times, inspire our young people, or provide answers to problems we…
Tags Share Perhaps the area of our greatest domestic failure is in the system of welfare—public assistance to those in need. There is a deep sense of dissatisfaction, among recipient and government alike, about what welfare has become over the last thirty years, and where it seems to be going. Welfare is many things to…
Tags Share This is the most affluent nation the world has ever known. This nation—our nation—has a food—producing capacity unrivaled in this history of the world. Yet in the midst of our great affluence, children—American children—are hungry, some to the point where their minds and bodies are damaged beyond repair. I have seen, in the…
Tags Share We stand at a new crossroads to an uncertain future. The way ahead is not charted. We know only that it will be full of difficulty and danger. It may seem strange to talk now of new crossroads and new turnings. We are, after all, in the midst of the longest period of…
Tags Share This is a historic occasion. We have come here out of respect for one of the heroic figures of our time—Cesar Chavez. But I also come here to congratulate all of you, you who are locked with Cesar in the struggle for justice for the farm worker, and the struggle for justice for…
Tags Share Long ago it was written that “to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Now we approach the season which, in every year, we mark our higher purpose and our common humanity. In this year, this season is also a time to pause and a time…
Tags Share Each of our cities is now the seat of nearly all the problems of American life: poverty and race hatred, interrupted education and stunted lives, and other ills of the new urban nation—congestion and the filth, danger, and purposelessness which afflict all but the very rich and the very lucky. To speak of…
Tags Share Your generation—South and North, white and black—is the first with the chance not only to remedy the mistakes which all of us have made in the past but to transcend them. Your generation—this generation—cannot afford to waste its substance and its hope in the struggles of the past, for beyond these walls is…
Tags Share “How does Matthew Chance sleep and stay alert to his surroundings when he appears to be reporting at all hours?” It’s something many have likely thought about the CNN senior international correspondent, along with countless other journalists working from the front-lines in Ukraine and Russia. As shelling and other instruments of war are…
Tags Share New York’s new mayor has recently twice diminished the dignity of workers who for years now have been on the front lines and otherwise lauded — rightly so – as essential. Arguing that businesses need to remain open so service establishments can be patronized, the Mayor said, “My low-skilled workers, my cooks, my…
As Robert F. Kennedy formally launches its Workplace Dignity Program, President Kerry Kennedy reflects upon how leaders play a central role in honoring dignity in the workplace.
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