Ted Kennedy Quotes

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans. We must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country.

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

Good governance can eliminate injustice, destitution and poverty.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

My goal is to eradicate poverty. I think we can't have equality until we eradicate poverty.

If it doesn't reach the last poor man, your constitution is wrong.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.

I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.