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