I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
JOHN LEWISEvery single vote is precious.
More John Lewis Quotes
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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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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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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 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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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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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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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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