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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

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS

Blood Democracy Participate Process
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
JOHN LEWIS

Path Teaching
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
JOHN LEWIS

Comix Music Sense Style
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Movement Need Non Violence
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Individual Trouble
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Impossible Possible Sense Team Work Togetherness Unity
You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice People Truth Uncomfortable
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
JOHN LEWIS

Give Up Motivational Persistence Press Push
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
JOHN LEWIS

Active Justice Right
Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Burdem Hate
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
Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
JOHN LEWIS

Failure Give Up Motivational People Success Understand Young
I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
JOHN LEWIS

Believe College Prize School Teacher University
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
JOHN LEWIS

Choose Inspirational Time

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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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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