Act Quote by Jeffrey Toobin

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed, not to control guns, but to control blacks.

— Robert Sherrill

“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half of Kennedy's…

— James T. Patterson

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case…

— Niger Innis

“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil rights legislation…

— Michelle Alexander

“To do just that, Bill Landes (University of Chicago Law School) and I collected data on all multiple victim public shootings in all the…

— John R. Lott Jr

“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and…

— Michelle Alexander

In June 1968, five days before my mother's forty -sixth birthday, the world fell apart again. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy, who died the…

— Lorna Luft

“Hundreds of political assassinations related to minority races, labor leaders and spokesmen against fascism have taken place in the U.S. since World War II.…

— Mae Brussell

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word…

— Henry Rollins

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

— Cornel West

When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places…

— Robert Dallek

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King…

— Malcolm X