...Concerns, a disability advocacy organization in Indianapolis. May I begin by quoting John Fitzgerald Kennedy who once said, "It is in the American tradition to stand up for ones right even if the new way to stand up for ones rights is to sit down." Because the lack of transportation...

...demonstrations throughout the South. Kennedy publicly supported the student sit-in movement, saying it was "in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights — even if the new way is to sit down."27 Kennedy was extraordinarily successful in private, personal discussions with black...

...aggressive, civil rights protests by placing them within the broad narrative of American democracy. "It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights," he declared, "even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down."47 The future president...