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Nobody thinks that Obamacare is perfect. It has its problems.

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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Chairperson
Human Rights Activist
Politician
U.S. Representative
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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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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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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This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.
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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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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.
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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 all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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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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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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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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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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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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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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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 [James Comey] should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down.
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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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