Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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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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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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Music is a universal language.
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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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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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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