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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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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Chairperson
Human Rights Activist
Politician
U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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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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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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Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
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Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.
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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'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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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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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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad.
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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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