John Lewis Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

  John Lewis

  Growing Up, Men, White Man

  "Rep. John Lewis Looks Back On The Struggle For Voting Rights". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. November 18, 2016.

• When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the little town of Troy, or visit Montgomery or Tuskegee, I would see the signs that said, "WHITE MEN - COLORED MEN," "WHITE WOMEN - COLORED WOMEN."And I would come home and say to my mother and father and my grandparents, "Why?" "Why this?" "Why that?" And they would just tell me, "That's just the way it is! Don't get in the way. Don't cause trouble."

  John Lewis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "John Lewis marches on: “Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America”". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

• That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.

  John Lewis

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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