"We have so many issues today that..." - Quote by John Lewis
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.
More by John Lewis
“I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.”
“You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.”
“I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
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“We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.”
“If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.”
“For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.”
More on Immigration
“We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened.”
“Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.”
“I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”