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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

John Lewis

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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Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
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
We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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Brother Continue People Sister Togetherness Unity
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Call Equality Justice Work
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
We must be headlights and not taillights.
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Light One Liner Positive
Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Act Civil Movement Obey Riot
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Community Country Family Unity
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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Government Home Vote Wrong
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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Action Movement Need Non Violence
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Choose Inspirational Time
Every single vote is precious.
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One Liner Precious Vote
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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Comfortable Future Hope Issue Optimism Spite
The vote controls everything that you do.
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Control Government One Liner Vote
If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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Community Impossible Possible Sense Team Work Togetherness Unity
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.
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Country Lifetime Soul Struggle
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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Believe Done Give Up Inspirational Want
Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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Faith Inspirational Success
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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Fury Pretty Quick
You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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Non Violence Optimism Philosophy
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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Accomodation Duty Government Reason State
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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Justice People Truth Uncomfortable
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non Violence Principle
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

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