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If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.

John Lewis

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.
JOHN LEWIS

Arrive Believe Country Model Right True World
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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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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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.
JOHN LEWIS

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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
JOHN LEWIS

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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
JOHN LEWIS

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We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Patience Stop
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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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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If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.

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