Latest John Lewis Quotes from Interviews

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• The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America.

  John Lewis

  Real, Civil Rights, Constitution

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents didn't have - that it was an ongoing struggle to realize the dream of the 14th and 15th Amendment.

  John Lewis

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost smell the drama of what happened a few short years ago [the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s]. So maybe, just maybe, we will never ever repeat this unbelievable time in our history. We have to tell it all, and make it plain, and make it clear, so people will never ever forget the distance we have come, and the progress we have yet to make.

  John Lewis

  Distance, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

  John Lewis

  America, Lessons, Universal

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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

  John Lewis

  Believe, Rights, Generations

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, College, Order

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

  John Lewis

  Country, Distance, Native American

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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

  Children, War, Issues

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

  John Lewis

  Principles, Deviate, Nonviolence

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• [Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

  John Lewis

  Home, Missing, Firsts

  Source: www.refinery29.com

• I think it is an imperfect arms control agreement. It's not a friendship treaty. But when America gives her word, we have to live up to it and work with our allies.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Agreement, America

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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

  People, President, Viewpoints

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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.

  John Lewis

  Years, President, Half

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• I think all three of those men [James Mattis, Mike Pompeo and Rex Tillerson] that you just mentioned, depending on what deal was struck with Russia, depending on what terms the deal would have and what incremental steps we would have to take and measurements that we would have to take with potentially Russia in a deal, some of those positions could change, and some of President-elect Donald Trump's positions could change depending on what deal could be struck.

  John Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Russia

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• 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

  President, Sides, Legitimacy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And to bring that up as justification for John Lewis questioning the legitimacy of a democratic activity that is - has been around since the beginning of our country is wrong.

  John Lewis

  Country, Years, Two

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• For a person [like John Lewis] that is a champion of voter rights to question whether or not Donald Trump legitimately won an election or not is an incredible position to take five days before an inauguration.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Champion, Voters

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

  John Lewis

  Outcomes, Election, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  John Lewis

  Years, President, Hawaii

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad.

  John Lewis

  President, United States, Hey

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  John Lewis

  Men, Trump, Landslides

• President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

  John Lewis

  President, States, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

  John Lewis

  Directors, Outcomes, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com