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I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
John Lewis
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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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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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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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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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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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