If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
JOHN LEWISIt is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
More John Lewis Quotes
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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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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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Sensible people have got to work together.
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By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
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I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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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 will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
JOHN LEWIS