Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
JOHN LEWISHate is too big a burden to bear.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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Music is a universal language.
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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 tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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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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The vote controls everything that you do.
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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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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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Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
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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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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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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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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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