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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.

John Lewis

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
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
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Moral Obligation Right
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
JOHN LEWIS

Change People Shoes Show Struggle Walk
People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Door Organize Participate People Process
We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Patience Stop
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
JOHN LEWIS

Demand Democracy Determination Force God Number Togetherness
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Arrest Attempt Murder People Register Undersstand Vote
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Creation Freedom Generation Society
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
When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
JOHN LEWIS

Admit Forgiveness Mistake People Wrong
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
JOHN LEWIS

Lifetime Struggle
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
Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
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
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work

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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