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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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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 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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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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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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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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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 don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
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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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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
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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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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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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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