"We may not have chosen the time, but…" — John Lewis
"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us."
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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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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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More Chosen Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever;…
— J. J. Abrams
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Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that…
— Neil Armstrong
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To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,…
— Charles Babbage
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.
— Eric Bana
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and…
— Dennis Banks
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Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of…
— Roseanne Barr
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them,…
— Karl Barth
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast…
— Joseph Addison
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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
— John Berger
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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