The U.S. government must stand on the side of human rights, the rule of law, and democratic progress, not impede or otherwise stunt such progress. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
In the RFK Center’s Speak Truth to Power program, we are working with schools across the United States and in countries like Italy, Cambodia and Sweden to turn every student into a defender. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
For too long, we’ve allowed ourselves to equate targeted bullying with innocent teasing, or dismissed it as pranks and ignored the torment and long-term impact that an incident like this has on young people. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
It’s obvious that China faces a range of demographic and economic difficulties stemming from its own population growth, and that the global community has a vested interest in avoiding the worst impacts of that growth. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies’ cries. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
Dr. King gave his life to peace and justice and reconciliation between people, black and white, rich and poor, and he was a great hero for not only people who were oppressed in our country but for people who believed in justice both here and around the world. Kerry Kennedy Read Quote
