Thursday, August 6
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John Lewis - Love in Action
Krista Tippett Interviews John Lewis
Original Air Date: March 28, 2013
Tippett: "Love as you are talking about it, as you have aspired to live it, is not a way you feel. It’s a way of being, right?"
Lewis: "It’s a way of being, yes. It’s a way of action. It’s not necessarily passive. It has the capacity. It has the ability to bring peace out of conflict."
“You have to believe and you can never, ever, give up on any possibility. It’s part of it, as I said, from the beginning. It’s already done. You just have to find a way to make it real.”
- John Lewis
“... you have to believe there may be setbacks, there may be some disappointments, there may be some interruption. But, again, you have to take the long, hard look. With this belief, it’s going to be OK; it’s going to work out.”
- John Lewis
“Every fight is not your fight. Pace yourself.” And I would say it to the young people and others sometime, “Don’t get in a hurry. Our struggle is not a struggle that lasts for one day, one week, one month or one year or one lifetime. It is an ongoing struggle.”
- John Lewis
Read or listen to the full interview on the website of the On Being Project.