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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

John Lewis

You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Consistence Hard Justice Motivational Success
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Brave Capacity Forgiveness Inspirational Let Go Move On People
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
JOHN LEWIS

Afraid Believe Courage Speak
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Come Hope Injustice Mobilize Need People Speak Time Togetherness Unity
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 LEWIS

Build Conscience Country Soul
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?
JOHN LEWIS

Determination Generation Inspirational Leaving Legacy People
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Done Give Up Inspirational Want
You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
JOHN LEWIS

Give Up Motivational Persistence Press Push
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Movement Need Non Violence
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Individual Live People Preparation
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Help Justice Need People Speak
You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
JOHN LEWIS

Hope Inspiratioanl Optimism
We cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Patience Stop
I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
JOHN LEWIS

Believe College Prize School Teacher University
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
JOHN LEWIS

Necessary Trouble
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Care Health Privilege Right Stand
You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice People Truth Uncomfortable
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
JOHN LEWIS

Justice Moral Obligation Right
Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.
JOHN LEWIS

Lifetime Struggle
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.
JOHN LEWIS

Civil Contribution Deal Movement Rights Story Women Women Empowerment
Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
JOHN LEWIS

Job Racism Vote Work
A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Government Justice Power
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
JOHN LEWIS

Active Justice Right
The vote controls everything that you do.
JOHN LEWIS

Control Government One Liner Vote
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Freedom Hate Obligation Racism Speech

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