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You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

John Lewis

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWIS

Government Home Vote Wrong
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Creation Freedom Generation Society
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

Feeling Gut Justice
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
JOHN LEWIS

Book Comic Reading
People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Door Organize Participate People Process
I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Individual Live People Preparation
Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Burdem Hate
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Individual Trouble
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
JOHN LEWIS

Care Health Privilege Right Stand
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Movement Need Non Violence
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
JOHN LEWIS

Hope Lose One Liner Optimism
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
JOHN LEWIS

Lifetime Struggle
Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWIS

Existence Justice One Liner Peace Serve
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
JOHN LEWIS

Disgarce People Politics Process Shame
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity

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