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We must be headlights and not taillights.

John Lewis

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

Care Health Privilege Right Stand
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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Lifetime Struggle
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
JOHN LEWIS

Cry Distance Emotional Feeling Happiness Progress
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Choose Inspirational Time
I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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Country Hope Optimism Thinking Try
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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Believe Individual Live People Preparation
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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Disgarce People Politics Process Shame
I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.
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Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Black Lives Matter Happiness Justice Process
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Necessary Trouble
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Done Give Up Inspirational Want
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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Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
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
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity

We must be headlights and not taillights.

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