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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
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Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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 say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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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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Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.
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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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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The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.
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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, This is a way.
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.
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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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