There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
JOHN LEWISWe must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
More John Lewis Quotes
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
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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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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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