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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

John Lewis

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.
JOHN LEWIS

Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
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
Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
JOHN LEWIS

Failure Give Up Motivational People Success Understand Young
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
JOHN LEWIS

Bold Brave Courage Finding Justice
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
JOHN LEWIS

Active Justice Right
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
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Civil Generation Movement Obligation Rights Story
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
JOHN LEWIS

Change People Shoes Show Struggle Walk
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
JOHN LEWIS

Country Hope Optimism Thinking Try
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
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
To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Colour Divide Orientation People Race Religion Wrong
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
JOHN LEWIS

Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
JOHN LEWIS

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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Freedom Hate Obligation Racism Speech
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Arrest Attempt Murder People Register Undersstand Vote

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

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