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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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U.S. Representative
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Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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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 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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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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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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 government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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 think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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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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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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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 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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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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That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow up and accept the fact that they lost the election.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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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 believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
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Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.
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