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The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

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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
Troy
Alabama
John Robert Lewis
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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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If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.
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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
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Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.
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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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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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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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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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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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The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.
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The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
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[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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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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Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
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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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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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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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My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
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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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I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.
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