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.
JOHN LEWISThe reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
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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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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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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Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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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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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
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