John Lewis Quotes

Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.

I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.

I think the administration can do a lot of good by telling folks that are on their side of the aisle, look, we may have lost the election on the Democrat side, but it's time to come together.

What has been doing in the last week, attacking Hollywood actresses [Meryl Streep] for criticizing him, I mean what would is this guy [Donald Trump] living in?

Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

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

I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

Do I think Russians supported [Donald Trump]? Do I think they tried to get him elected? Do I think it worked against Clinton? I do. And that is something that has to be investigated.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

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!"

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

Sensible people have got to work together.

I can tell just from working closely for the last year an half with president-elect [Donald Trump] and even over the course of the last six weeks, he has no problem with differing opinions in a room.

It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.

John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Love is a better way.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

I believe in forgiveness I believe in trying to work with people.

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.