The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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.
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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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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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Sensible people have got to work together.
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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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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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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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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Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
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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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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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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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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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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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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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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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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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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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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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