Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
JOHN LEWISWe built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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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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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Sensible people have got to work together.
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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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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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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