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Music is a universal language.

John Lewis

We must be headlights and not taillights.
JOHN LEWIS

Light One Liner Positive
You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Move On Optimism
It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
JOHN LEWIS

Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWIS

Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
JOHN LEWIS

Bold Brave Courage Finding Justice
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
JOHN LEWIS

Lifetime Struggle
Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
JOHN LEWIS

Faith Justice Racism
I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Individual Trouble
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
JOHN LEWIS

Non Violence Principle
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
JOHN LEWIS

Comix Music Sense Style
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Movement Need Non Violence
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

Feeling Gut Justice
Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
JOHN LEWIS

Faith Inspirational Success
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
JOHN LEWIS

Fury Pretty Quick
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 LEWIS

Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote

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