The Test of Our Progress
"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 [...]
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We Must Stop Destroying our Children
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues – the most dominating virtues of human [...]
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Prayers for Our School Children
As children across the country return to their classrooms, I share prayers for them in this new school year. I begin with a special prayer [...]
Read MoreChildren Fighting for Freedom
I wrote recently about a few of the brave children who helped change our nation during the Civil Rights Movement. There are many, many others [...]
Read MoreChildren on the Front Lines
“I can make a difference!” Every July thousands of students from Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® sites across the country participate in the CDF [...]
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Our Children Are Crying Out
Last weekend in Chicago, 12 people were killed and at least 60 others were injured by guns. Fourteen of these shooting victims were children and [...]
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Childhoods Ended by Guns
On July 16, 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson was shot and killed in front of her Washington, D.C. home trying to buy ice cream. Makiyah was a [...]
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The Census Citizenship Question and Children
Who counts as a person in America? The answer is more complicated than it should be. Every ten years the government is required by the [...]
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Senator Robert Kennedy
On the night Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for president, was campaigning [...]
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California’s Chance to Lead for Poor Children
When I was a young civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi, I was called in 1967 to testify before Congress [...]
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