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Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis. — Studs Terkel

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy. — John L. Lewis

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. — John L. Lewis

If not us, then who?
If not now, then when? — John E. Lewis

you rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping. — John Lewis-Stempel

Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts. — John Lewis Gaddis

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process. — John Lewis

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse. — John Lewis

I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other. — John Lewis Gaddis

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail. — John Lewis Gaddis

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. — C.S. Lewis

Historians must not confuse the passage of time with the accumulation of intelligence," John Lewis Gaddis has cautioned. — Douglas Boin

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price. — John Lewis Gaddis

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions — John Welwood

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life. — John Lewis

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us. — John Lewis

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every ... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals. — John Lewis

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war. — John Eisenhower

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic. — John Lewis

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. — John L. Lewis

I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. — John Lewis

Love is a better way. — John Lewis

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. — John Lewis Gaddis

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. — John Lewis

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America. — John Lewis

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again — John L. Lewis

Is it so hard to die, Mr. Lewis? Is that labyrinth really worse than this one? — John Green

Races 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 Lewis

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama. — John Lewis

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. — John Lewis

One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work. — John Piper

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it. — John Lewis Gaddis

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. — John Lewis

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change. — John Lewis

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power. — John Lewis Gaddis

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it. — John Lewis

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? — John Lewis

The victim had been John Lewis, the theology student. He had been attacked by thugs in a white restroom in Rock Hill, South Carolina. — Ken Follett

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak. — John L. Lewis

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage. — John Lewis

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward. — John Lewis

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz. — John Lewis

If not now, then when? — John E. Lewis

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on. — John Lewis

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order. — John Lewis Gaddis

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful. — John Lewis

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!" — John Lewis

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on. — John Lewis

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. — John Lewis Lund