“A moving feeling within me… that I was sitting there demanding a God-given right, and my soul became satisfied that I was right in what I was doing.
At the same time there was something deep down within me, moving me… that I could no longer be satisfied or go along with an evil system that I had to be maladjusted to.
Yet in spite of all of this, I had to keep loving the people who denied me service, who stared at me.”
—John Lewis, excerpt from NBC White Paper 1960 news documentary on the sit-in movement for civil rights in the South (Lewis was 20 years old)
