Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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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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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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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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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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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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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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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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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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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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