To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it’s just wrong.
JOHN LEWISThe scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the society.
More John Lewis Quotes
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Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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.
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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!
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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
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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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Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
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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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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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We must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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