Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
JOHN LEWISEvery single vote is precious.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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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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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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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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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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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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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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.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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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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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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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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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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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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