"When I was growing up in rural Alabama,……" — John Lewis
"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 moved to Tennessee, to Nashville as a student."
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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 Alabama Quotes
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one of 139 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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…
— Luke Bryan
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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…
— Bear Bryant
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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…
— Bear Bryant
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Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then…
— Jason Aldean
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
— Jason Aldean
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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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.
— Richard Dawkins
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
— Unknown Author
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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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