Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
JOHN LEWISThere is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
More John Lewis Quotes
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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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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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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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