Robert Kennedy Quotes
I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.
His vehicle for speaking out was singing and songwriting. In addition he got most of his audiences singing as well, so his social and political messages was multiplied many time.
He was urging American entry into WW I. The phrase was a slogan of pro-war Americans until 1917 when America entered the war.
He was jailed for the speech.
This speech is often referred to as the “Ballot or the Bullet” speech. It was the first time that Malcolm X used the “Ballot or the Bullet”. He was not the first African American to use the “Ballot or the Bullet” phrase. See {624102} for a use over 100 years ago. However, he was really arguing to allow Blacks to vote in the South where it was almost impossible at the time. There was no Voting Rights Act at that time and it was his actions that helped pass one shortly thereafter.
Robert Francis Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. He was, like his brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of modern American liberalism.
