What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible. - John Lewis

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When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you. - John Lewis

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By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before. — Edwin Elliot

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. - John Lewis

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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something. - John Lewis

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Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes. - John Lewis

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It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process. - John Lewis

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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division. - John Lewis

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