John Lewis Quotes

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.

Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.

There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.

Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.

Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.