Edward Kennedy Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

  Edward Kennedy

  Poverty, Should, Ending Poverty

  "America Back on Track".

• The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts", www.nytimes.com. September 13, 2005.

• One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law.

  Edward Kennedy

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Today

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts", September 13, 2005.

• I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through the cooperative efforts of the three coequal branches of government, the Congress, the executive and courts. But not every president, not every legislator and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and to try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Opportunity, Judging

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts". www.nytimes.com. September 13, 2005.

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