It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
JOHN LEWISSay something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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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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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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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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