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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Chairperson
Human Rights Activist
Politician
U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious it's almost sacred.
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It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
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I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
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Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
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It is our hope that when people read March - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.
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I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.
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I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.
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Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
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