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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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We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.
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Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.
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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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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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But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!
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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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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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Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.
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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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I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.
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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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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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Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
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I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.
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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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I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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