Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
JOHN LEWISWe 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.
More John Lewis Quotes
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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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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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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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We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
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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!
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We all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
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Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
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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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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
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You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.
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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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Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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