I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
John LewisRaces don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
John LewisThe events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
John LewisWhen I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change
John Lewis