John E. Lewis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
-- John E. Lewis

#Motivation
We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
-- John E. Lewis

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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
They say before you make something happen you have to see it yourself. I have been seeing it for a long time and I am living my dream.
I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
When I want to talk to someone from Golden Boy, I make sure Richard calls me. Bosses talk to bosses.

John E. Lewis famous quotes

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