Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
JOHN LEWISComics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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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