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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

To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
JOHN LEWIS

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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
JOHN LEWIS

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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
JOHN LEWIS

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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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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.
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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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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Necessary Trouble
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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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.
JOHN LEWIS

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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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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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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
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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.

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