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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.

John Lewis

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non Violence Principle
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Community Country Family Unity
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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Action Movement Need Non Violence
The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Lesson Non Violence One Liner Universal
We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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Freedom Racism Want
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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Necessary Trouble
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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Justice Moral Obligation Right
I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
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Believe College Prize School Teacher University
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Path Teaching
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
Sensible people have got to work together.
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One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Act Civil Movement Obey Riot
We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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Dignity Love Spirit
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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Despair Faith Give Up Lost Progress Push Sea Work Hard
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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Arrest Attempt Murder People Register Undersstand Vote
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Believe Civil Generation Movement Obligation Rights Story
A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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Democracy Government Justice Power
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Choose Inspirational Time
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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Give Up Motivational Persistence Press Push
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Comix Music Sense Style
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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Black Gorw Up Men Racism Sign White Women
We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Call Equality Justice Work
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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Believe Freedom Hate Obligation Racism Speech
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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Bold Brave Courage Finding Justice
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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Democracy Difficult Hard Impossible People Process Vote
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Blood Democracy Participate Process

We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.

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