John Lewis Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”

“The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan.”

“When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of 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 that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.”

“If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'”

“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”

“The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.”

“In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.”