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.
JOHN LEWISSensible people have got to work together.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
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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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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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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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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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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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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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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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