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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

John Lewis

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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Arrest Attempt Murder People Register Undersstand Vote
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Community Country Family Unity
There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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Civil Contribution Deal Movement Rights Story Women Women Empowerment
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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Change People Shoes Show Struggle Walk
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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Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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Racism Scars Society Stain
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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Average Extraordinary Gift Grow Up Poor
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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Arrive Believe Country Model Right True World
We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Call Equality Justice 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.
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Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
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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Cry Distance Emotional Feeling Happiness Progress
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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Government Home Vote Wrong
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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Believe Consistence Give Up Hope Optimism Success
You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Justice Move On Optimism
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
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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Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Believe Civil Generation Movement Obligation Rights Story
People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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Black Lives Matter Change Forget Happen Hope People
People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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Democracy Door Organize Participate People Process
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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Believe Done Give Up Inspirational Want
You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
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Justice People Truth Uncomfortable
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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Democracy Instrument Non Violence Powerful Society Tool Vote
Sensible people have got to work together.
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One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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Comfortable Future Hope Issue Optimism Spite
The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Music Play Reward
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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