"I grew up very poor in rural..." - Quote by John Lewis

“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.”

“You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.”

“Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test.”

“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.”

“Great floods have flown From simple sources.”

“My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”

“Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”

“Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary”

“Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.”