Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
John Lewis
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Chairperson
Human Rights Activist
Politician
U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
Hopeful
Optimistic
Americans
Trying
Think
Thinking
More quotes by John Lewis
We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.
John Lewis
Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
John Lewis
The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
John Lewis
The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
John Lewis
Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
John Lewis
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John Lewis
Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.
John Lewis
President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
John Lewis
That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.
John Lewis
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
John Lewis
Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.
John Lewis
Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.
John Lewis
Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
John Lewis
I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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
I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
John Lewis
The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.
John Lewis
Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
John Lewis
I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
John Lewis
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
John Lewis