It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.
Malcolm XDuring 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.
Malcolm X