When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
JOHN LEWISYou have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
More John Lewis Quotes
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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Music is a universal language.
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Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
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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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The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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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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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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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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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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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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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way to get in the way.
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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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By the force of our demands, our determination, and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them together in the image of God and democracy
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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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