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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

John Lewis

We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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Freedom Racism Want
Music is a universal language.
JOHN LEWIS

Language Music One Liner Universal
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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Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
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Afraid Believe Courage Speak
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
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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Believe Done Give Up Inspirational Want
I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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Believe Individual Live People Preparation
I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
JOHN LEWIS

Arrive Believe Country Model Right True World
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non Violence Principle
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Gorw Up Men Racism Sign White Women
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Comix Music Sense Style
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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Racism Scars Society Stain
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Music Play Reward
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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Justice People Truth Uncomfortable
Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS

Blood Democracy Participate Process

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

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