“We have seen the savage, bloody evidence that there is today within our borders an ‘other America,’ with its people too long denied a share on our affluence, almost without hope for improvement, no longer willing to live out a nightmare distortion of the American dream. This is the other America which subsists today in the ghettos of our crowded, modern cities, with a legacy of deprivation and indifference…. I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress who cannot help themselves.”

—ROBERT F. KENNEDY