You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWISFollowing the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
More John Lewis Quotes
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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Every single vote is precious.
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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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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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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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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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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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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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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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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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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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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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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
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Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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