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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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It is our hope that when people read March - Book One, Book Two, and Book Three - that they will understand that another generation of people, especially young people, were deeply inspired by the work of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others.
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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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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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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
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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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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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I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
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Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.
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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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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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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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Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.
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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, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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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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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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