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Freedom is not a state; it is an act.

John Lewis

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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Lifetime Struggle
Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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Job Racism Vote Work
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images – it’s almost like music.
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Comix Music Sense Style
There’s nothing wrong with a little agitation for what’s right or what’s fair.
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Active Justice Right
The lessons of nonviolence are universal.
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Lesson Non Violence One Liner Universal
You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Justice Move On Optimism
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
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
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Non Violence Principle
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
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.
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Against Dare Life Sail Thinking Wind
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.
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Action Creation Freedom Generation Society
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
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Life Live Non Violence Tactics Technique
Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
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Fury Pretty Quick
You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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Hope Inspiratioanl Optimism
You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
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Non Violence Optimism Philosophy
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

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