Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWISYoung people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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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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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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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.
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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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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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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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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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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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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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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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