We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
JOHN LEWISYou must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
More John Lewis Quotes
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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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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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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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 must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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