"You have to be persistent...." - Quote by John Lewis

“Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.”

“It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.”

“When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.”

“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

“I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”

“Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.”

“I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.”

“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”