John Lewis

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."

"Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"The greatest measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed."

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

"There is no better time than now to be committed to ending the divisions."

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in our children, but whether we can afford not to."

"I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"The purpose of education is to turn the mind into a living instrument of knowledge."

"I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not his possession or his bank account, but his character."

"Nothing in all the world is more important than the continued development of a peaceful world."

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

"Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and the inner city of poverty vanish."