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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.

John Lewis

Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWIS

Existence Justice One Liner Peace Serve
Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Courage Justice Racism Wind Work
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
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
JOHN LEWIS

Demand Democracy Determination Force God Number Togetherness
We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWIS

Freedom Racism Want
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWIS

Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
We must be headlights and not taillights.
JOHN LEWIS

Light One Liner Positive
We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Equality Fellow Human Treatment
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
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Creation Freedom Generation Society
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
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
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
JOHN LEWIS

Hope Lose One Liner Optimism
When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Gorw Up Men Racism Sign White Women
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Civil Credit Dirty Movement Receive Rights Unbelievable Women Work Hard

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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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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