Beaten Quote by Malcolm X

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy…

— Malcolm X

“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

I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of…

— Marlon Brando

“Booker Sistrunk sat awkwardly with his hands behind him and continued the mouthing: “You oughtta be ashamed of yourself, treating a brother like this.”…

— John Grisham

“the words of President Kennedy, uttered on June 11, 1963, only a few months before his tragic death: “We are confronted primarily with a…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got…

— Mark Steyn

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

“Up to then there had been something of a gentleman’s agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the…

— David Halberstam

There was something punk rock about Bobby Kennedy not going where the pollsters said or where consultants said. He was unmoored from what was…

— Beto O'Rourke

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

— Rick Perlstein

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the…

— Hugh Sidey

There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as…

— Michael Eric Dyson