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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

John Lewis

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?
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Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Path Teaching
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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Despair Faith Give Up Lost Progress Push Sea Work Hard
Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Job Racism Vote Work
To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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Lifetime Struggle
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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Fury Pretty Quick
The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Lesson Non Violence One Liner Universal
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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Democracy Difficult Hard Impossible People Process Vote
We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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Brother Continue People Sister Togetherness Unity
People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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Black Lives Matter Change Forget Happen Hope People
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

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