John Lewis Quotes About Nonviolence

Quotes about: Nonviolence

• We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. We've come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.

  John Lewis

  Kings, Distance, Beloved Community

• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

• Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

  John Lewis

  Believe, Black History, Way

  "John Lewis on 'March: Book One'". Printers Row Journal Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. August 23, 2013.

• Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

  John Lewis

  Principles, Deviate, Nonviolence

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

  John Lewis

  America, Lessons, Universal

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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