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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.

John Lewis

We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
JOHN LEWIS

Help Justice Need People Speak
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
JOHN LEWIS

Accomodation Duty Government Reason State
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS

Blood Democracy Participate Process
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
JOHN LEWIS

Non Violence Principle
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
JOHN LEWIS

Demand Democracy Determination Force God Number Togetherness
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
JOHN LEWIS

Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
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?
JOHN LEWIS

Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Patience Stop
Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
JOHN LEWIS

Faith Justice Racism
You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWIS

Hope Inspiratioanl Optimism
We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWIS

Freedom Racism Want
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
JOHN LEWIS

Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Happiness Justice Process
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

Feeling Gut Justice
We must be headlights and not taillights.
JOHN LEWIS

Light One Liner Positive
I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
JOHN LEWIS

Average Extraordinary Gift Grow Up Poor
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
JOHN LEWIS

Dignity Love Spirit
I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Individual Live People Preparation
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Neighbour Place School Study Young
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
JOHN LEWIS

Call Equality Justice Work
Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Black Lives Matter Difference
Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
JOHN LEWIS

Act Change Freedom Future One Liner State

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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