"Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has..." - Quote by John Lewis
Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.
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“That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And to bring that up as justification for John Lewis questioning the legitimacy of a democratic activity that is - has been around since the beginning of our country is wrong.”
“What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible.”
“I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.”
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“The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.”
“When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.”
“For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.”
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“If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?”
“I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.”
“Great griefs medicine the less.”