John Lewis
John Lewis
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth21 February 1940
CountryUnited States of America
believe speaks-out speak
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
shoes people changed
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
powerful vote most-powerful
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
needed
It's something we've needed for a long time.
military europe organization
The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
giving messed people
If it wasn't for the people giving us stuff, we wouldn't be here today. If it wasn't for them, we'd have been real messed up.
people impossible vote
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
mother father mother-and-father
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
doctrine history
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.