John F. Kennedy Quotes
We face ... a moral crisis as a country and as a people,” said the president. A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution ... peaceful and constructive for all.
Kennedy was introducing a Civil Rights Act. He was assassinated thereafter. Much of the content was passed by President Lyndon Johnson as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), National Address, June 11, 1963
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This phrase was also to be used over 100 years later by Malcolm X. See {624101} and {38291}.
Moses urged them not to accept a compromise what would give them the majority of everything that they were demanding but not all. See {637624} for Rustin’s’ argument to accept the compromise.
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640752} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
Humphrey was the Mayor of Minneapolis then.
This was the first named Civil Rights Act passed in the United States. It was passed over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, a Southerner, who tried to thwart Congress’s efforts at Reconstruction.
25 of the Union’s TWA Airline Workers in Memphis Tennessee had signed a petition to the Union objecting to the Union’s support for King’s desegregation campaign. Quill responded by inviting King to give the main address at the annual union convention. He was prophetic of the danger King faced, but died before King was assassinated.
It was used as a whipping boy and led to a re-alignment of Southern politicians to the Republican party.
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.
