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You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.

John Lewis

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Black Lives Matter Difference
Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Burdem Hate
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!
JOHN LEWIS

Believe College Prize School Teacher University
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
JOHN LEWIS

Division Happiness Hatred Home Ourselves Peace
I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
JOHN LEWIS

Average Extraordinary Gift Grow Up Poor
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
JOHN LEWIS

Book Comic Reading
Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
JOHN LEWIS

Existence Justice One Liner Peace Serve
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Civil Credit Dirty Movement Receive Rights Unbelievable Women Work Hard
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
JOHN LEWIS

Accomodation Duty Government Reason State
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

Feeling Gut Justice
I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Freedom Hate Obligation Racism Speech
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
JOHN LEWIS

Path Teaching
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWIS

Government Home Vote Wrong
Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
JOHN LEWIS

Faith Justice Racism
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
JOHN LEWIS

Change People Shoes Show Struggle Walk

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