Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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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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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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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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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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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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 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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Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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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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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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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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