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To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.

John Lewis

Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there’s no fury facing it.
JOHN LEWIS

Fury Pretty Quick
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Neighbour Place School Study Young
If you come together with a mission, and it’s grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Impossible Possible Sense Team Work Togetherness Unity
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Happiness Justice Process
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 have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
JOHN LEWIS

Feeling Gut Justice
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.
JOHN LEWIS

Fall In Love Freedom Individual Love Person Race
There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.
JOHN LEWIS

Action Movement Need Non Violence
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
JOHN LEWIS

Democracy Difficult Hard Impossible People Process Vote
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
Sensible people have got to work together.
JOHN LEWIS

One Liner People Sensible Togetherness Work
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
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
JOHN LEWIS

Racism Scars Society Stain
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves until we end hatred and division.
JOHN LEWIS

Division Happiness Hatred Home Ourselves Peace
Too many of us still believe our differences define us.
JOHN LEWIS

Believe Black Lives Matter Difference
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

To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.

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