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Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It's not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.

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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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My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.
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Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.
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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 all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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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 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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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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I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.
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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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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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But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
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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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The point is not where Barack Obama was born, the point is is that we've got congressmen on the Democratic side of the aisle that are questioning the legitimacy of President-elect [Donald] Trump who won in an electoral landslide.
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John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
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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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Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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