When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
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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Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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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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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 have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
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It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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