"It was not enough to come and listen……" — John Lewis
"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 those four corners. You had to get out and do something."
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46 Quotes by John Lewis
John Lewis has 46 quotes on this site.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was…
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We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution…
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I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
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I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up…
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this…
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Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie,…
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When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when…
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If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and…
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We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think…
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You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw…
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More Confined Quotes
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one of 310 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars,…
— Joseph Addison
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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
— Joe Biden
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make…
— H. Rap Brown
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his…
— Chanakya
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Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.
— Aberjhani
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not…
— Hsu Yun
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is…
— Jacques Ellul
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Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated…
— Hugh Mackay
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