Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWIS
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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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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I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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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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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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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.
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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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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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