Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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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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I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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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.
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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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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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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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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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