Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
JOHN LEWISI don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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.
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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 believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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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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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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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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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.
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