Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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More John Lewis Quotes
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
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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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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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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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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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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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Every single vote is precious.
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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?
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