We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
JOHN LEWISWe need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
JOHN LEWISYou have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWISNever become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
JOHN LEWISIt is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
JOHN LEWISWe do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWISSensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWISYou have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
JOHN LEWISIt’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
JOHN LEWISYou must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
JOHN LEWISThe scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
JOHN LEWISFury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
JOHN LEWISFreedom is not a state; it is an act.
JOHN LEWISIf you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
JOHN LEWISReading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
JOHN LEWISGive us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
JOHN LEWISWe may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
JOHN LEWIS