When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
JOHN LEWISFollowing the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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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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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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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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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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.
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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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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
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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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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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