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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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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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John Robert Lewis
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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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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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Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.
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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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John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
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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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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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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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But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.
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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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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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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 think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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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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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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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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We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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