I Thought I Was Going To Die A Few Times. On The Freedom Ride In The Year 1961, When I Was Beaten At The Greyhound Bus Station In Montgomery, I Thought I Was Going To Die. On March 7th, 1965, When I Was Hit In The Head With A Night Stick By A State Trooper At The Foot Of The Edmund Pettus Bridge, I Thought I Was Going To Die. I Thought I Saw Death, But Nothing Can Make Me Question The Philosophy Of Nonviolence.

-John Lewis

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I Thought I Was Going To Die

John Lewis

I Thought I Was Going To Die A Few Times. On The Freedom Ride In The Year 1961, When I Was Beaten At The Greyhound Bus Station In Montgomery, I Thought I Was Going To Die. On March 7th, 1965, When I Was Hit In The Head With A Night Stick By A State Trooper At The Foot Of The Edmund Pettus Bridge, I Thought I Was Going To Die. I Thought I Saw Death, But Nothing Can Make Me Question The Philosophy Of Nonviolence.

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Philosophy

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Young People Can Understand, And Must Understand, That We Had Success, We Had Failures, But We Never Gave Up. We Never Gave In. We Never Became Bitter. We Didn't Hate. We Continued To Press On. And That's What We're Saying: There Are Some Ups, There Are Some Downs, And When You're Not Down, You Must Have The Capacity And The Ability To Get Up And Keep Going.

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