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 LEWISIf 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.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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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 government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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Music is a universal language.
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Every single vote is precious.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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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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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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