In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
JOHN LEWISThe government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
More John Lewis Quotes
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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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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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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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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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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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 tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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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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