There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
JOHN LEWISYou cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against.
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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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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.
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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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Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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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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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
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We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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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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I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.
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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
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Music is a universal language.
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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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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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Hate is too big a burden to bear.
JOHN LEWIS
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