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" It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented. "
Don Lemon
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" I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school. "
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" Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have. "
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" There's a degree of deception in silence. "
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" I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that. "
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" In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about. "
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" Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. "
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" The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you'll be okay in the end. "
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" People all the time say to me, 'You look just like Don Lemon,' and I would go, 'I hear that all the time! 'And after a moment, I would go, 'I am Don Lemon!' "
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