Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
JOHN LEWISReading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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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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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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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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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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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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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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