Book Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

“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

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

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“For him (JFK) as he imagined of the British aristocracy, policies were less important than character traits such as dignity, courage, and honor. They…

— Scott Farris

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it…

— Jim Brown

Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth…

— Edward Kennedy

“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

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need…

— Elisabeth Shue

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to…

— Jack Newfield

“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

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