Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
JOHN LEWISFreedom is not a state; it is an act.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Sensible people have got to work together.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
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You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.
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People will never, ever forget what happened and how it happened, and it is my hope that we are on our way to greater change.
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Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.
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Voting is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
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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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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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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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We must be headlights and not taillights.
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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.
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Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
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