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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

John Lewis

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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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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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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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.
JOHN LEWIS

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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
JOHN LEWIS

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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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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.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

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