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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

Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Comix Music Sense Style
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
When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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Admit Forgiveness Mistake People Wrong
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
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
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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Blood Democracy Participate Process
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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Book Comic Reading
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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Country Exercise Possible Struggle Suffering Vote
Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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Believe Black Lives Matter Difference
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Feeling Gut Justice
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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Equality Justice Truth
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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Division Happiness Hatred Home Ourselves Peace
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.
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Black Gorw Up Men Racism Sign White Women
You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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Bold Brave Courage Finding Justice
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
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

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