Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWISSometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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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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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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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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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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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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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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