John F. Kennedy Quotes
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
Kennedy, John F. "Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights and Job Opportunities." Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 484.
At the time racism and discrimination in the United States was not only rampant but legal. But change in many substrata of America was detectable and many intellectuals--writers, artists, scientists, educators, theologians, entertainers, groups who would later be called “elites” began to make themselves heard on the subject. Falkner was one whose novels had always taken an anti racist view point and now were overtly calling for political and social change.
This Quotation is inscribed on the Atatürk Memorial in Turakena Bay, Gallipoli and at the Kemal Atatürk Memorial, Canberra, Australia. Most of the Allied casualties at Gallipoli were Australians. Few nations have memorialized enemy troops with the same dignity and respect as their own dead heroes as Ataturk did—another unusual action of this great statesman.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
