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John Lewis

We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWIS

Freedom Racism Want
You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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Believe Consistence Hard Justice Motivational Success
Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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Business Faith Give Up Motivational Sports
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
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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Country Lifetime Soul Struggle
I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Average Extraordinary Gift Grow Up Poor
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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Democracy Difficult Hard Impossible People Process Vote
If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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Community Impossible Possible Sense Team Work Togetherness Unity
There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
JOHN LEWIS

Civil Contribution Deal Movement Rights Story Women Women Empowerment
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Blood Democracy Participate Process
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
JOHN LEWIS

Job Racism Vote Work
Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Act Civil Movement Obey Riot
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Comix Music Sense Style
Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race

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