Tag: John Lewis
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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.
John Lewis
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We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for people who are being discriminated against. And it doesn’t matter whether they are black or white, Latino, Asian or Native American, whether they are straight or gay, Muslim, Christian, or Jews.
John Lewis
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1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority.
John Lewis
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Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
John Lewis
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The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
John Lewis
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The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.
John Lewis
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Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.
John Lewis
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I remember back in the 1960s – late ’50s, really – reading a comic book called ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.’ Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.
John Lewis
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.
John Lewis
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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