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 LEWISWe will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
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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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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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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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Every single vote is precious.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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