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Джон Роберт Льюис — американский политический и государственный деятель, член Палаты представителей США от Джорджии с 3 января 1987 года. В 1960-х был председателем Студенческого координационного комитета ненасильственных действий и одним из ключевых участников движения за гражданские права. Wikipedia  

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“I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.”

Academy of Achievement web site http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/lew0pro-1 (url accessed on October 22, 2008)

“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”

On the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, quoted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in It's Been Real: Scenes from the Capitol in the final showdown over health care reform. http://www.slate.com/id/2248375/ by Christopher Beam, Monday, March 22, 2010, Slate

“Next time we march we may have to keep going when we get to Montgomery. We may have to on to Washington.”

Told to New York Times on March 7, 1965 by Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee and organizer of the Selma to Montgomery march after police stopped the demonstrators with violence.
Источник: As noted on On This Day, BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7/newsid_4318000/4318021.stm. (url accessed on October 22, 2008)

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

Источник: A tweet https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1011991303599607808 from June 2018
Источник: Quoted in Get in good trouble, necessary trouble': Rep. John R. Lewis in his own words https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/18/rep-john-lewis-most-memorable-quotes-get-good-trouble/5464148002/ Joshua Bote, USA Today (18 July 2020)

“Our nation is founded on the principle that we do not have kings. We have presidents. And the Constitution is our compass. When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, ‘What did you do? What did you say?'”

For some, he concluded, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.
Источник: Quoted in Impeachment is Over, But Don’t Despair by Diallo Brooks, CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/impeachment-is-over-but-dont-despair/, (7 Feb 2020)