We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
JOHN LEWISYou have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
More John Lewis Quotes
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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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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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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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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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Sensible people have got to work together.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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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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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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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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