I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
JOHN LEWISThe reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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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.
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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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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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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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If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
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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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