Best John Lewis Quotes
- I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone… Been
- The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts… Country
- I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16… Books
- When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18,… Became
- It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and… Confined
- My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand up… Based
- If youre going to provide civil rights and equality for everybody, you cannot draw a line, you cannot build a wall. We must respect the… Build
- When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I… Alabama
- My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. They had been tenant farmers like so many people in the South. They… Alabama
- Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could… Afraid
- In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7th was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation… Alabama
- My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me… Alabama
- When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White… All
- We would said to people, you know, you've been living here for 40 years, for 50 years. Your street is not paved. You have a… Afraid
- In 1957, when I finished high school, I was 17 years old. This was two years after the Montgomery bus walkout, two years after Rosa… Bus
- I continued the sit-ins, got on the Freedom Rides and became an active participant not just in Nashville but throughout the American South. Active
- The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I morned and I cried like many of our citizens did. As… Annapolis
- There have been efforts in recent years and as recently as this past election with it being a deliberate and systematic attempt to suppress the… African
- Today, I think more than ever before, we have to speak up and speak out to end discrimination based on sexual orientation. Dr. King used… Alabama
- I am concerned that there are some feelings in some quarters in some corners that, what do people of color want now? We elected Barack… America
- On Inauguration Day I will be on the platform sitting on the steps behind President Barack Obama. I don't know how I'm going to take… Able