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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.

John Lewis

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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By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
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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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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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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.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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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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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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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.
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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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Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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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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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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