Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
JOHN LEWISThe lessons of nonviolence are universal.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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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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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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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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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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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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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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I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Every single vote is precious.
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There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
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