You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
JOHN LEWISBy the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
More John Lewis Quotes
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Music is a universal language.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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