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This article is adapted from a speech given at the Catholic Youth Convention in El Paso, Texas, last October 24. It was entered in the April 21 Congressional Record by Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D...
...Declaration of Independence states that as far as America is concerned, all men are created equal. Well we may all be created equal, but something seems to happen a little while after that when we find out our economic status. Today many of the more privileged youth of this country, think only of consolidating their next eggs while millions of other young people worry about whether they'll find a job. Lincoln said that this nation could not endure permanently half slave and half free, and that goes for the economically enslaved in America today as well. This nation must...
Among many young people in Appalachia, among Indian youth, Blacks and Spanish speaking youth the unemployment statistics are grim. Unemployment among all young people ranges from 30%-50% in America today as the young men and women of this country are faced with the near certainly of joblessness, or at best intermittent jobs, often of the most marginal kind. What has happened to the youthful idealism of the 1960's? My father noted in 1967 that: "Not since the founding of the Republic-when Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence at 32, Henry Knox built the artillery corps...
...rich for any to believe that it doesn't belong to all of us. As long as we act the part of the living and hold it sacred by our deeds, it will not escape us. We must get together-poor and vulnerable black tenant farmers, Spanish speaking regnant youth, the young people of Appalachia, a region so long plundered of its wealth, wealth which has been stripped from the ground and carried elsewhere leaving those who did the work very little in return...
Before Ford's speech, 400 demonstrators, led by representatives of the Spartacus Youth League, the Ukrainian Liberation Front and a coalition of Greek Cypriots, marched at the Beinecke Library, where the reception was held...