I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
JOHN LEWISI would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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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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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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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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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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