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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.
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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Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.
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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.
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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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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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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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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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We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.
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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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