John Kennedy actually said...

Neither Mississippi nor any other southern State deserves to be charged with all the accumulated wrongs of the last 100 years of race relations.

John F. Kennedy Event Timeline

09/29/1962

More John Kennedy Quotes

This is an important campaign and it does involve us all greatly.

In other words, by 1970, will we be stronger in relation to them than we are today, or weaker?

I am not trying to run America down; I am trying to build America up.

I appreciate your help in this campaign.