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" The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan. "
John Lewis
Rare
Fraud
Over
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" You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward. "
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" I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat. "
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Time
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Boat
" My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. "
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Been
Relatives
" The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. "
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American
Still
" You have to be persistent. "
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You
" Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process. "
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Possible
People
" I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble. "
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Good
Feel
America
" I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes. "
John Lewis
Loved
Heroes
Two
" I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites. "
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Think
See
" In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote. "
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People
Vote
Planned
" Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble. "
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Good
Find
Way
" I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings. "
John Lewis
Really
Need
Believe
" The press is supposed to serve as a check on government. "
John Lewis
Check
Serve
Press
" Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act. "
John Lewis
Good
Environment
Women
" I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind. "
John Lewis
Think
Wind
Life
" I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960. "
John Lewis
Discipline
Non-Violence
Fall
" Listening to Dr. King on the radio inspired me. Coming under the influence of Jim Lawson inspired me to think that I, too, could do something. "
John Lewis
Influence
Think
King
" Selma was the turning point. "
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Turning Point
Turning
Point
" What 'March' is saying is that it doesn't matter whether we are black or white, Latino or Asian. It doesn't matter whether we are straight or gay. "
John Lewis
Asian
Black
Gay
" I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. "
John Lewis
Desire
Only
People
" Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here. "
John Lewis
Here
Without
Standing
" We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help. "
John Lewis
Shadow
People
Help
" When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. "
John Lewis
Men
Waiting
Growing Up
" There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. "
John Lewis
Little
Right
Fair
" Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made. "
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Progress
Happiness
Joy
" We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in Tuskegee, Alabama. But they were told they failed the so-called literacy test. "
John Lewis
School
Test
High
" If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.' "
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Day
Crazy
You
" I grew up very poor in rural Alabama. "
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Rural
Grew
Alabama
" Too many of us still believe our differences define us. "
John Lewis
Differences
Believe
Define
" Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. "
John Lewis
Family
Community
Working Together