Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
JOHN LEWIS
Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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I say to people today, ‘You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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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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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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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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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
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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.
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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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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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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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