Incomparable Grace Quotes

“It was the year of Birmingham, when the civil rights issue was impressed on the nation in a way that nothing else before had been able to do. It was the most decisive year in the Negro’s fight for equality. Never before had there been such a coalition of conscience on this issue.
(Page 213) quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.”
― Mark K. Updegrove, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency

“Image was Kennedy’s currency, and he radiated it in spades.”(Page 60)”
― Mark K. Updegrove, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency

“Cool and detached, he was pragmatic about fate’s mercurial whims; his attitude spoke to the restless, manic pace in which he would go through life—the vitality he exuded, his insatiable intellectual curiosity and quest for adventure and all things new, his sometimes-touching compassion for others and often inexplicable recklessness. It could all go at any time, his life’s experience whispered in his ear. Get the most out of it. Don’t waste a moment. “The point is,” he once told his friend George Smathers, “you’ve got to live every day like it’s your last day on earth. That’s what I’m doing.”
― Mark K. Updegrove, Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency