Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWISRioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
More John Lewis Quotes
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People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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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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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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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.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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