We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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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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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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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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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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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.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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