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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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" I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down. "
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" Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test. "
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Mother
" Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something. "
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Think
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" Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope. "
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Sense
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" The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. "
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Government
State
Duty
" You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward. "
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You
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Forward
" We should be creative, and we should accommodate the needs of every community to open up the democratic process. We should make it easy and accessible for every citizen to participate. "
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Open
Process
Community
" The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan. "
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Fraud
Over
" Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process. "
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Little
Process
Blood
" Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. "
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Prayer
Bird
Like
" The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something. "
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Faith
Doing
Segregation
" I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders. "
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Said
Civil Rights
Never
" Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back. "
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Path
Never
Me
" It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process. "
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Process
Political
Take
" The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have. "
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Tool
Vote
Most
" Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here. "
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Here
Without
Standing
" My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise. "
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Beginning
Child
Trouble
" Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation. "
John Lewis
Children
Young
People
" 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. "
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America
Progress
Sex
" When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. "
John Lewis
Men
Waiting
Growing Up
" I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. "
John Lewis
Trying
Old
Library
" I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes. "
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Loved
Heroes
Two
" There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action. "
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Direct
Movement
Need
" If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.' "
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Day
Crazy
You
" You have to be persistent. "
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Persistent
You
" I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement. "
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Travel
Great
Time
" When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence. "
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People
Religion
Say
" We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama. "
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Fear
Shadow
People
" In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. "
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Great
American
Voting
" 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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Believe
Done