If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
JOHN LEWISIf you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
JOHN LEWISYou have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWISEven in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
JOHN LEWISWhen people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
JOHN LEWISWe all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
JOHN LEWISWe are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWISWe do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWISPeople must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
JOHN LEWISThe lessons of nonviolence are universal.
JOHN LEWISEvery generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
JOHN LEWISSensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWISFury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
JOHN LEWISNon violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWISYou have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWISReading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
JOHN LEWISIn spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
JOHN LEWIS