Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWISThe lessons of nonviolence are universal.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
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When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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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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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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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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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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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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Music is a universal language.
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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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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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 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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