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.
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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It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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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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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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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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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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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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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
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Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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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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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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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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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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