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I say from time to time that the vote is precious.

John Lewis

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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Change People Shoes Show Struggle Walk
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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Democracy Difficult Hard Impossible People Process Vote
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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Book Comic Reading
You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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Feeling Gut Justice
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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Cry Distance Emotional Feeling Happiness Progress
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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Believe Freedom Hate Obligation Racism Speech
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Believe Civil Generation Movement Obligation Rights Story
If you’re not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed.
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Believe Consistence Give Up Hope Optimism Success
We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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Freedom Racism Want
Freedom is not a state; it is an act.
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Act Change Freedom Future One Liner State
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
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Black Lives Matter Happiness Justice Process
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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Bird Civil Faith Movement Prayer Rights Wings
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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Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.
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Brother Continue People Sister Togetherness Unity
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
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Burden Creation Division Hate Peace Society
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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Care Health Privilege Right Stand
Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?
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Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
It’s a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.
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Disgarce People Politics Process Shame
The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Lesson Non Violence One Liner Universal
Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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Hope Lose One Liner Optimism
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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Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
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Justice Patience Stop
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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Community Country Family Unity
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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Equality Justice Truth
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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Despair Faith Give Up Lost Progress Push Sea Work Hard
To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Divide Orientation People Race Religion Wrong
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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Help Justice Need People Speak

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