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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Chairperson
Human Rights Activist
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U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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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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I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!
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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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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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I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.
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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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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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It is my hope that people today will see that, in another time, in another period, when we saw the need for people to speak up, to organize, to mobilize, and to do something about injustice, we came together.
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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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But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
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