About March Book
March is not just a book.
It is trilogy of graphic novel about politic, social, and civil rights movement and an autobiography.
This book written by the congressman and the main character in the story, John Lewis with his fellow Andrea Aydin.
The illustration created by Nate Powell that also lettering the whole script.
The first book of this trilogy launched on August 2013 by the publisher, Top Shelf Productions.
Followed by the other series that published on January 2015 for the second one and the third at 2 August 2016.
All of them published by the same publisher.
Why I Suggest You To Read March?
John Robert Lewis, the main character of this story involved to the civil rights movement after read a comic Martin Luther King and Montgomery Story.
It prooved that comic is a coomunicative media to explain a non fiction story.
If you like fantasy super hero comics, you will meet the real superhero fighting his believe by non violent power.
After all, these book listed at the New York Post and Washington Times best seller for graphic novel.
And won several awards including Coretta Scott King Book Award, Printz Award and YALSA award for excellence non fiction.
March Book Quotes
Ides Of March Quotes
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
We are involved now in a serious revolution.
One month passed, hen another, i never heard back.
Our revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.
Finally, i decided to ntroduce myself to the only perso who i thhought could understand what i was trying t do.
I’ll never forget my librarian.
It’s a sin and a shame before God that these people who govern us would let things come to such a sad state. But God is not dead.
I start to feel guilty for not doing more, i became restless.
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant.
Women’s March Quotes
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
I love the new idea.
I know that an education is important and I hope to get one, but human dignity is the most important thing in my life.
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
in effect, that it is a struggle for the poor, for those who have been left out and left behind, and that it transcends race.
After fourteen weeks of stand-ins, the city’s theater owners had finally agreed to desegregate.
I thought I was going to die a few times.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
What political leader here can stand up and say, “My party is the party of principles?
We do not want violence, and we do not advocate for it.
Welcome March Quotes
we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of God and democracy.
I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
One man, one vote’ is the African cry. It is ours too it must be ours!
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation.
In which each of God’s children can live in a society that makes love its highest virtue.
Never let anyone, any person or any force dampen, dim or diminish your light.
his march will dramatize our struggle, mobilizing support in parts of the country that don’t know the problem first hand.
You had one job, March!
What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
Intersting Facts About March Book
Andrew Aydin were in the middle of writing his thesis about The Montgomery Story.
And How It Helped Inspire Protest Movements Around the World when started to write this project.
Nate Powell, the illustrator of these books estimating that he had to make around 300 pictures for this trilogy.
But the fact is it become more than 500 pages.
John Robert Lewis is a conggresman since 1986.
He won 17 consecutive elections.
He won more than 70% votes in 16 elections.
He representated Georgia 5th conggressional district.
Nowadays he still active in civil rights movements.