Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWISIf 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.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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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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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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