John Lewis Quotes

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.