We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.

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• John Lewis:

  Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope.

• John Lewis:

  Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

• John Lewis:

  We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. Whe

• John Lewis:

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

• John Lewis:

  I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

• John Lewis:

  I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good.

• John Lewis:

  I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr.

• John Lewis:

  I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a g

• John Lewis:

  People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm g

• John Lewis:

  I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.