It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
JOHN LEWISEven 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.
More John Lewis Quotes
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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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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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The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
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I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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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’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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