John Lewis
John Lewis
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 February 1940
CountryUnited States of America
book people march
This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".
book luther changed
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.
fun book people
I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."
despair progress gave-up
We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
needed
It's something we've needed for a long time.
presidential president 1960s
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.
missing church civil-rights
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.
hiroshima power shift sudden
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.
doctrine history
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
power
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
bush franklin george redesign since sweeping
George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
open second terms
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
choosing doctrine far great itself leads obviously people power taken wonder
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.
shoes people changed
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.