American - Politician | February 21, 1940 -
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.
John Lewis
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Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the president of all races.
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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.
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I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.
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Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.
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Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
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Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.
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We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
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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.
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We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
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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.
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We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.
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