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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.

John Lewis

We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity
We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Equality Fellow Human Treatment
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
JOHN LEWIS

Active Justice Right
Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWIS

Existence Justice One Liner Peace Serve
Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
JOHN LEWIS

Faith Justice Racism
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWIS

Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Colour Divide Orientation People Race Religion Wrong
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
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
I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Individual Live People Preparation
Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
JOHN LEWIS

Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Change Forget Happen Hope People
Music is a universal language.
JOHN LEWIS

Language Music One Liner Universal
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS

Blood Democracy Participate Process
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
JOHN LEWIS

Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
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

Believe Consistence Give Up Hope Optimism Success

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