I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
JOHN LEWISFreedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
More John Lewis Quotes
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When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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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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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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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.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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