"I would say to a young person:..." - Quote by John Lewis

“Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.”

“When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.”

“I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.”

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

“By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.”

“Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.”

“Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.”

“Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?”

“I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.”