Sixty years ago we met. Sixty years of memories. We honor him today because though we beat and jail marchers when they make demands, we honor martyrs when they can no longer speak, we must honor John LewisLewis ' by completing the work for which John LewisLewis ' gave John LewisLewis ' life. We must pass the John LewisLewis ' Voting Rights Bill without delay.

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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

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We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

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When I came here, I put my hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. I didn't put my hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.

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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

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It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

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