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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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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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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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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, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.
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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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