John Lewis Quotes

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

I don't like bigotry and intolerance, but they do exist and I don't think you're going to get them out by passing laws.

Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

We must be thoroughly democratic and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

If err we must, let us err on the side of tolerance.

In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I am an ardent believer in a free, democratic and inclusive society, and the robust exchange of views that is essential to tolerance.

Equality as a principle is at the heart of our democracy.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions and different views.

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.