We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now!
JOHN LEWISWhen growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn’t like it.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
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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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Races don’t fall in love, genders don’t fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
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The vote controls everything that you do.
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Peace cannot exist where justice is not served.
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You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.
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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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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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I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
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If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
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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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