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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.

John Lewis

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
JOHN LEWIS

Care Health Privilege Right Stand
Give us a vote! Let us vote! We came here to do our job. We came here to work.
JOHN LEWIS

Job Racism Vote Work
Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.
JOHN LEWIS

Non Violence Principle
To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
JOHN LEWIS

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In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I’m very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
JOHN LEWIS

Comfortable Future Hope Issue Optimism Spite
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
You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
JOHN LEWIS

Government Home Vote Wrong
Create a society at peace with itself, and lay down the burden of hate and division.
JOHN LEWIS

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We will march with the spirit of love and with the spirit of dignity.
JOHN LEWIS

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Never lose your hope, be optimistic.
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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
JOHN LEWIS

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You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.
JOHN LEWIS

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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
JOHN LEWIS

Path Teaching
We are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
JOHN LEWIS

Community Country Family Unity
Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.
JOHN LEWIS

Black Lives Matter Happiness Justice Process
Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
JOHN LEWIS

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