Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
JOHN LEWISNever lose your hope, be optimistic.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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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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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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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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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.
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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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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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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Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
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