Alabama Quote by John Lewis

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

— John Lewis

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town…

— John Lewis

I grew up in rural Alabama, and some of my older family members used to eat red clay dirt. As a kid, I was…

— Cynthia Bailey

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

— Chris Gardner

I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we…

— John Lewis

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

— Jimmy Carter

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

— Charles Barkley

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

— Nicholas D. Kristof

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's…

— DJ Qualls

In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the…

— John Lewis

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when…

— Misty Copeland