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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
John Lewis
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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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U.S. Representative
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Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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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 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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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 don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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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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If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.
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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 think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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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.
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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 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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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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I think [Donald Trump] is going to be inaugurated this week. I have great concerns, and apparently Republicans do as well, and there's going to be an investigation about the role that Russian hacking played in getting him elected.
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