We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
JOHN LEWISOur struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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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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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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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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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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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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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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