We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long a...
JOHN E. LEWIS When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl...
JOHN LEWIS There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.
JOHN LEWIS Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just pass...
JOHN LEWIS A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were...
JOHN LEWIS I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops t...
JOHN LEWIS Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird...
JOHN LEWIS I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins -...
JOHN LEWIS I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in some...
JOHN LEWIS To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping ...
JOHN LEWIS If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look...
JOHN LEWIS When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white m...
JOHN LEWIS The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw ...
JOHN LEWIS You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWIS I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
JOHN LEWIS We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through infor...
JOHN LEWIS I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was g...
JOHN LEWIS I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead o...
JOHN LEWIS What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with l...
JOHN LEWIS Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.
JOHN LEWIS We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the close...
JOHN LEWIS When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say ...
JOHN LEWIS You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way.
JOHN LEWIS Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and di...
JOHN LEWIS Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregati...
JOHN LEWIS Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.
JOHN LEWIS The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
JOHN LEWIS When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people s...
JOHN LEWIS Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared...
JOHN LEWIS In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African Ameri...
JOHN LEWIS I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luthe...
JOHN LEWIS I do not agree with what Mr. Snowden did. He has damaged American international relations and compro...
JOHN LEWIS We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When...
JOHN LEWIS The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are un...
JOHN LEWIS The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
JOHN LEWIS Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter ...
JOHN LEWIS There may be some difficulties, some interruptions, but as a nation and as a people, we are going to...
JOHN LEWIS When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later...
JOHN LEWIS We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for ...
JOHN LEWIS Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?
JOHN LEWIS We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over...
JOHN LEWIS I have met every president since President Kennedy. And I think Barack Obama must be listed as one o...
JOHN LEWIS Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you...
JOHN LEWIS 1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to ge...
JOHN LEWIS The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like ...
JOHN LEWIS I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful ...
JOHN LEWIS Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go ...
JOHN LEWIS In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the sta...
JOHN LEWIS In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The on...
JOHN LEWIS The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I...
JOHN LEWIS Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary...
JOHN LEWIS We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in...
JOHN LEWIS I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a gr...
JOHN LEWIS It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confin...
JOHN LEWIS MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighte...
JOHN LEWIS I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged ...
JOHN LEWIS [O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segreg...
JOHN LEWIS It pays to get drunk with the best people.
JOE E. LEWIS It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
JOE E. LEWIS If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
LEWIS E. LAWES Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
JOE E. LEWIS I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
JOE E. LEWIS I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
JOE E. LEWIS They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they exami...
JOE E. LEWIS Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
JOE E. LEWIS I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
JOE E. LEWIS I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
JOE E. LEWIS I always wake up at the crack of ice.
JOE E. LEWIS I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
JOE E. LEWIS A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.
JOE E. LEWIS I drink to forget I drink.
JOE E. LEWIS Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
LEWIS E. LAWES I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and gi...
JOE E. LEWIS I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? ...
JOE E. LEWIS Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.
JOE E. LEWIS I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in 14 days I lost two weeks.
JOE E. LEWIS I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks
JOE E. LEWIS You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. -Joe E. Lewis.
JOE E. LEWIS You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back...
LEWIS E. PIERSON The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
JOE E. LEWIS Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
JOE E. LEWIS I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
JOE E. LEWIS I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
JOE E. LEWIS You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
JOE E. LEWIS I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
JOE E. LEWIS You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
JOE E. LEWIS Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
JOE E. LEWIS If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
JOE E. LEWIS The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth.
JOE E. LEWIS It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor / as long as you've got money.
JOE E. LEWIS We can afford almost any mistake once.
JOE E. LEWIS Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
JOE E. LEWIS Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
JOE E. LEWIS You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't...
E. ST. ELMO LEWIS A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all ...
JOHN E. MULLER Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and p...
JOHN E. WALKER Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon...
JOHN E. HINES We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outco...
JOHN E. GRAY My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
JOHN E. WALKER As Snoopy, that great contemporary philosopher, once said, “There’s nothing like a little physic...
JOHN E. SARNO There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.
JOHN E. SARNO It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and ent...
JOHN E. HINES In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality som...
JOHN E. HINES The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestc...
JOHN E. REMSBURG To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism...
JOHN E. REMSBURG I ‘am shaggy as rivers,
forests and mountains
My eyes see the universe
natural a...
JOHN E. WORDSLINGER Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to scream
Louder than a train overhead below a rail...
JOHN E. WORDSLINGER The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused t...
JOHN E. WORDSLINGER I realized that with everything I did from that point onward, I would have to ask myself this questi...
JOHN E. MACKEY [Talking about Monte Rissell] ...and like Ed Kemper he was able to convince the psychiatrist he was ...
JOHN E. DOUGLAS The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, s...
JOHN L. LEWIS The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrong...
JOHN L. LEWIS The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home ...
JOHN L. LEWIS The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned childre...
JOHN L. LEWIS Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their inju...
JOHN L. LEWIS In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated ...
JOHN L. LEWIS I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign p...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.
JOHN LEWIS LUND The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of goo...
JOHN L. LEWIS Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which ...
JOHN WREN-LEWIS But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumental...
JOHN L. LEWIS The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and pr...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is c...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS It's something we've needed for a long time.
JOHN L. LEWIS If it wasn't for the people giving us stuff, we wouldn't be here today. If it wasn't for them, we'd ...
JOHN L. LEWIS I don't think the federation has a head; its neck has just grown up and haired over.
JOHN L. LEWIS The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many t...
JOHN L. LEWIS Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the ...
JOHN L. LEWIS George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand s...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS