John Lewis
John Lewis
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 February 1940
CountryUnited States of America
struggle soul lifetime
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.
hate people bitter
Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.
dirty hard-work civil-rights
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
people vote
People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
moral obligation fairs
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
believe speaks-out speak
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
shoes people changed
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
powerful vote most-powerful
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
came greater united
The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
open second terms
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
hiroshima power shift sudden
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
choosing doctrine far great itself leads obviously people power taken wonder
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.
bush franklin george redesign since sweeping
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
power
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.