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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

John Lewis

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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Country Hope Optimism Thinking Try
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

Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Change Forget Happen Hope People
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
JOHN LEWIS

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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
JOHN LEWIS

Brother Continue People Sister Togetherness Unity
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
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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Action Creation Freedom Generation Society
We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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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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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Moral Obligation Right
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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Believe Consistence Give Up Hope Optimism Success
You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Burdem Hate

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

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