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.
JOHN LEWIS
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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 never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Music is a universal language.
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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.
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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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We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
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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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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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 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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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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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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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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