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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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John Lewis
Age: 80 †
Born: 1940
Born: February 21
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
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John Robert Lewis
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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 have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.
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People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.
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I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up.
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We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
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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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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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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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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.
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