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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
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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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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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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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I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.
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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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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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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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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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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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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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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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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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