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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
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U.S. Representative
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Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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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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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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Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.
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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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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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But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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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Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
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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'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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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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