We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
JOHN LEWISIt is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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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.
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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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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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Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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Music is a universal language.
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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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