"Until the Revolution of 1776 is complete we must get in this Revolution and complete this Revolution." John Lewis, Washington D.C. 1963.
"In the original version, Lewis opened by boldly declaring SNCC wouldn’t support Kennedy’s civil rights bill, because it didn’t go far enough to protect people from police brutality. That was tempered to: “It is true that we support the administration’s civil rights bill. We support it with great reservation, however.” - By
"My work is simply an attempt to say to America that you have a marvelous ideal, you should live up to it." Martin Luther King Jr.
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