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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

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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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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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

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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
JOHN LEWIS

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It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
JOHN LEWIS

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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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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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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.
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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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