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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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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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Human Rights Activist
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U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.
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The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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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.
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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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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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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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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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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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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 think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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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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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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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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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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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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