"Today, I think more than ever before, we……" — John Lewis
"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 to say when people talked about blacks and whites falling in love and getting married, you know, at one time, in the state of Virginia, in my native state of Alabama, in Georgia and other parts of the South blacks and whites could not fall in love and get married. And Dr. King took a simple argument and said, races don't fall in love and get married. Individuals fall in love and get married."
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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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As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence…
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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you…
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were…
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Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then…
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
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An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
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It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief…
— Joseph Lowery
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