Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
JOHN LEWISWithout our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.
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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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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 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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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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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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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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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
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