Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWISEvery single vote is precious.
More John Lewis Quotes
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I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
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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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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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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 say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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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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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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