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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.
John Lewis
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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
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Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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