We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
JOHN LEWISYou have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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If 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.
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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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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.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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