There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWISGive us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
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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 must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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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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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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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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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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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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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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