Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life

Quote by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Topics: African American Quotes, Minority Quotes

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the...

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the...

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for...

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for...

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one...

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one...

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that...

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that...

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the...

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the...

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the...

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the...

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas...

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas...

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon...

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression...

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression...