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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
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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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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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 have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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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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I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!
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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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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 remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.
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