Malcolm X Quotes:
Ocupation: Human rights activist
Life: May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965
Birthday: May 19
Death: February 21
During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.
source: Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964. 
topic: Kings, Jail, Government, Pretty Words, Statutes
