Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
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
Believe
Model
World
Serve
Models
Truly
Rest
Maybe
America
Right
Arrive
More quotes by John Lewis
I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
John Lewis
It is our hope that when people read March - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.
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
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
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
John Lewis
President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
John Lewis
If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.
John Lewis
We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.
John Lewis
The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect [Donald] Trump who won in an electoral landslide.
John Lewis
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
I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.
John Lewis
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
John Lewis
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
John Lewis
This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
John Lewis
I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious it's almost sacred.
John Lewis
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
John Lewis
I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
John Lewis
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
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
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