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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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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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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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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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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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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 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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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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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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 all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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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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