If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
JOHN LEWISYou have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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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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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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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