Tag: John Lewis
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Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.
John Lewis
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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.
John Lewis
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Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we’d go out on a sit-in, before we went on the freedom ride, before we marched from Selma to Montgomery, we would sing a song or say a prayer. Without our faith, without the spirit and spiritual bearings and underpinning, we would not have been so successful.
John Lewis
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In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn’t or couldn’t pass the literacy test.
John Lewis
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The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America – they’re black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.
John Lewis
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You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.
John Lewis
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There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we’ve come too far; we’ve made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there.
John Lewis
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The vote is precious. It’s almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before.
John Lewis
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When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.
John Lewis
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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
John Lewis