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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.

John Lewis

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.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Neighbour Place School Study Young
Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
JOHN LEWIS

Act Change Freedom Future One Liner State
We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWIS

Freedom Racism Want
Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Courage Justice Racism Wind Work
I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
JOHN LEWIS

Arrive Believe Country Model Right True World
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
It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
JOHN LEWIS

Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
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
We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Equality Fellow Human Treatment
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
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWIS

Government Home Vote Wrong
I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
JOHN LEWIS

Average Extraordinary Gift Grow Up Poor
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
Every single vote is precious.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner Precious Vote
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity
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

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