Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Years
Meetings
Later
Evers
Blood
Assassinated
Away
Driveway
Cannot
Downtown
Stills
Wash
Still
Jackson
Back
Meeting

More quotes by John Lewis

Image
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
John Lewis
Image
But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
John Lewis
Image
I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
John Lewis
Image
My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
John Lewis
Image
Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
John Lewis
Image
I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
John Lewis
Image
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
Image
I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.
John Lewis
Image
I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!
John Lewis
Image
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
Image
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
John Lewis
Image
I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
John Lewis
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, This is a way.
John Lewis
Image
John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
John Lewis
Image
I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
John Lewis
Image
Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
John Lewis