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" We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate. "
John Lewis
Open
Process
Community
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" In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test. "
John Lewis
People
Vote
Voting
" Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it. "
John Lewis
Go
Go For It
Happy
" I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. "
John Lewis
Desire
Only
People
" Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. "
John Lewis
Family
Community
Working Together
" Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful. "
John Lewis
Spiritual
Prayer
Freedom
" In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote. "
John Lewis
People
Vote
Planned
" There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there. "
John Lewis
America
Progress
Sex
" Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved. "
John Lewis
King
Felt
Early
" Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the president of all races. "
John Lewis
You
American
Hispanic
" When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio. "
John Lewis
Radio
Years
Parks
" I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat. "
John Lewis
Time
Believe
Boat
" Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble. "
John Lewis
Good
Find
Way
" Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here. "
John Lewis
Here
Without
Standing
" Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation. "
John Lewis
Children
Young
People
" Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something. "
John Lewis
Influence
Think
King
" Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being. "
John Lewis
King
Loving
Warm
" 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. "
John Lewis
You
Sunday
Morning
" A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act. "
John Lewis
People
American
Sunday
" We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient? "
John Lewis
Seeing
People
You
" The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater. "
John Lewis
Party
Kennedy
Also
" I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings. "
John Lewis
Really
Need
Believe
" Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? "
John Lewis
Gets
Hunter
Who
" Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes. "
John Lewis
Walk
People
Shoes
" Too many of us still believe our differences define us. "
John Lewis
Differences
Believe
Define
" I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960. "
John Lewis
Discipline
Non-Violence
Fall
" You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. "
John Lewis
You
Wrong
Something
" There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. "
John Lewis
Little
Right
Fair
" I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind. "
John Lewis
Think
Wind
Life
" The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before. "
John Lewis
Go
You
Vote
" My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. "
John Lewis
Father
Been
Relatives