"When I was growing up in rural..." - Quote by John Lewis
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.
More by John Lewis
“We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.”
“I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.”
“Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.”
More on Voting Rights
“People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.”
“We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.”
“Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.”
More on Personal History
“My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.”
“If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!”
“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”