Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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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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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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Every single vote is precious.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Music is a universal language.
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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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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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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.
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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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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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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.
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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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