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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.

John Lewis

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.
JOHN LEWIS

Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
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
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Civil Credit Dirty Movement Receive Rights Unbelievable Women Work Hard
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
Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
JOHN LEWIS

Act Change Freedom Future One Liner State
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
I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
JOHN LEWIS

Precious Time Vote
Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
JOHN LEWIS

Country Lifetime Soul Struggle
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
JOHN LEWIS

Music Play Reward
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
JOHN LEWIS

Fury Pretty Quick
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
JOHN LEWIS

Choose Inspirational Time
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
JOHN LEWIS

Non Violence Principle
Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Burdem Hate
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWIS

Government Home Vote Wrong
Every single vote is precious.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner Precious Vote

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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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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