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John Lewis

Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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Failure Give Up Motivational People Success Understand Young
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non Violence Principle
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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Necessary Trouble
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Hope Inspiratioanl Optimism
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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I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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Music is a universal language.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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