Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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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. - John Lewis

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I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. - John Lewis

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They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us. - Fannie Lou Hamer

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Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion.

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You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. - John Lewis

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You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way. - John Lewis

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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. ― Marilyn Monroe

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Open your mind before your mouth

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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. - John Lewis

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