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Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

John Lewis

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Music Play Reward
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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Book Comic Reading
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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Community Impossible Possible Sense Team Work Togetherness Unity
Sensible people have got to work together.
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One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
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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Arrive Believe Country Model Right True World
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Community Country Family Unity
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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Justice Moral Obligation Right
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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Racism Scars Society Stain
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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Country Exercise Possible Struggle Suffering Vote
We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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Dignity Love Spirit
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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Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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Hope Lose One Liner Optimism
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
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Black Gorw Up Men Racism Sign White Women
There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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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.
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Individual Trouble

Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

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