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John Lewis
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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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John Robert Lewis
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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
I think [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.
John Lewis
John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
John Lewis
That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.
John Lewis
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
John Lewis
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
John Lewis
[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
John Lewis
When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
John Lewis
I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
John Lewis
Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
John Lewis
I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
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.
John Lewis
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
John Lewis
The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect [Donald] Trump who won in an electoral landslide.
John Lewis