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John Lewis

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  1. “And I said, Dr. King, I am John Robert Lewis, but he still called me the boy from Troy. And we had a wonderful discussion. He said, if you want to attend Troy State, Called Troy University. We will help you, but we may have to file a suit against the state of Alabama, against Troy State. But you need to have a discussion with your mother and father. The home could be bombed or burned. They could lose the land. And I went back and had a discussion with my mother and father. They were so afraid that something could happen. So I continued to study in Nashville.”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Montgomery. You're right. He sent me a round trip Greyhound Bus ticket and invited me to come to Montgomery to meet with him. Close friend who has studied at the same college he had studied in Atlanta, Mohouse College, told him that I was in Nashville. So he got back in church with me and suggested when I was home for spring break to come and see him. So in March of 1958, at this time, I'm 18 years old, I boarded a bus to travel from Troy to Montgomery. And a young lawyer by the name of Fred Gray, who was the lawyer for Rosa Parks for Dr. King and the Montgomery Movement, met me at the Greyhound Bus Station and judged me to the Fresh Baptist Church in downtown Montgomery, passing by the Reverend Rath Abenathy, a colleague of doctor King Dunabus Walker. I saw doctor King and Reverend Rath Abenathy standing behind a desk, and doctor King said to me Are you the boy from Troy or you John Lewis?”

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  3. “As a young child, about seven, eight years old, we would go downtown Troy to the theater to see a movie. And all of us look like children had to go upstairs to the balcony. All the little white children went downstairs to the first floor. I kept asking my mother, my father, my uncles and aunts, my grandparents why, and they said, That's where it is. Don't get in the way, don't get in trouble. But in nineteen fifty five, fifteen years old, I heard a rosa pocket. I heard Lamar Luther King Jr., heard him on all radio. And 57, I met Rosa Park the next year in 58, I met Martin Luther King Jr. and I was inspired.”

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  4. “Much better than some of my colleagues listened to me today in the Congress. Some of those chicken were by their head, shake their heads. They never quite say amen, but they tended to produce. They produce eggs.”

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  5. “When I was growing up, I grew up on a farm, 50 miles from Montgomery. I sat with a little town called Troy. My father had been a sharecropper, as you stated, a tenant farmer, but in 1944 when I was four years old, and I do remember when I was four, he had saved $300 and a man sold him $110 acres of land. My family still owned that land today. And it was my responsibility to care for the chickens. And as a little child, I did want to be a minister. So we gathered all of our chickens together in the chicken yard, and my brothers and sisters and cousins were lined outside of the chicken yard, and I would start speaking and preaching to the chickens. And I said to young people today, some of those chickens that I preach to during the 40s and the 50s tended to listen to me.”

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  6. “Have always believed in a free press, an open press. Maybe didn't like some of the things that some of the southern papers printed in Alabama and Mississippi or some parts of Georgia. But we had in communities like Atlanta, in Nashville, Tennessee, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and even places in Mississippi where they were brave and courageous reporters. And sometimes that places were bombed also. It just embalmed the synagogues and the churches, but they bombed and burned the office of reporters. It was not easy, it was not simple.”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “When the American people saw that film footage. They didn't like it Speaking up, they start marching all across America and in a matter of a few days there was demonstration in more than 80 cities, almost on every major, college, and university campus at the White House, at the Department of Justice, they were demanding that President Johnson act, that the Congress act. And because the press, and I said over and over again, without the media, without the press, the Civil Rights Movement would have been like a bird without wings.”

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  8. “Cameran reporters, it was very, very dangerous, David. It was very dangerous to be a reporter. To have a pencil and a pad, or to be a photographer, when members of the clan, when people, they just didn't beat on us. They tried to destroy the record, whether it was in Atlanta or in Mississippi or in Alabama during the freedom rides. When we got off of that bus in Montgomery in May of 1961, They first beat the reporters. You saw all these men, mostly men, very few women reporters back then, just bloody, and then they turned on us.”

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  9. “I don't know. I don't think you really know much about Atlanta and the history here. For many, many years, long before the event of the Civil Rights Movement, there were black people and white people working together in this city to make the city what it is. And people used to call the city the Little New York.”

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  10. “I would suggest you here to come and welcome our shoes. Come and learn something before talking about the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia, the city of Atlanta. Come. And let me show you around.”

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  11. “Well, we can never give up on the possibility of being reconciled, bringing people together, creating what Dr. King and many of us call the beloved community. Said we must do what we can to redeem people, redeem the soul of America, to understand that we're one people, we're one family, we all live in the same house, not just American house, but the world house.”

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  12. “I got to know President George W. Bush, and he, I think he'll mind what we did or tried to do during the height of the civil rights movement. I got to know his father. Matter of fact, I gave him a book to read about the movement. And he sent me a note. The son, George W. Bush, I will see him from time to time. He would invite us down to the White House and we would taught. He embraced The building of an African American Museum on the mall. And his wife did, and they became partners in helping us get it there. So when the legislation was passed, it took me more than 15 years to get it through the Congress. But it was passed. Husigned into law. And during the open, he came and spoke, and Mrs. Bush came and spoke also. It was a Something becoming real for him and for his family.”

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  13. “Yeah, it's hot. It's very difficult. It was hard. I had known to Clinton for many, many years, but I had to make a decision. I had what I call an executive session with myself. And I said self. Listen.”

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  14. “I thought it was possible. And I became convinced that this one man could get elected and become president of the United States. And I was very proud to join his team and campaign on his behalf.”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I don't understand why people would say that or feel that. I think the election and the presidency President Barack Obama injected something very meaningful into the very vein of our country, gave people hope. Someone just said to me a few days ago, Oh, I wish he could have been elected for a third term.”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Well Of the evening when he was elected, I cried. And some reporters asked me why I was crying so much. I said there was tears, happiness, tears of joy. And I said, people are crying all over America. People are crying in other parts of the world. And those that are not with us today are crying. And they said, what are you going to do when he's inaugurated? I said, if I have any tears left, I'm going to crash the ball. And that's exactly what I did. I cried for Dr. King, for Robert Kennedy, for President Kennedy, for the three civil rights workers, for those hundreds and thousands of people that went to jail who never, ever Live to cast a vote, I cried for them. I cried for my great-grandparents and for my own mother and my own father”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “I think this department adjusted has a deaf And has withdrawn from the participation in the process of looking out for people, not moving people forward and standing still. During the administration of President Barack Obama, we had a caring and active department of justice.”

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  18. “I know his record, I know his history. He has a very long history of being on the other side and not on the right side. I don't think he's doing too well.”

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  19. “The election unfolded, we felt and I deeply felt, and I think history would bear me out that this election was not a clean and fair election. I believe to this day. That the Russians played a major role in. Happen this man get elected and harmon the campaign of Hillary Clinton”

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  20. “I felt like when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation not to be identified with and not to associate yourself with it. It's in keeping with the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence to not cooperate, not to be a part of it, not to add to it. And so more than 65 of my colleagues followed me and stand away.”

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  21. “And some of the people that make up this commission, they have a history, a long history of making it harder and difficult for people to participate in the democratic process. We come too far. This president should be leading us into the future, not taking us backwards.”

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  22. “Well, I think this president recognizes. For the records, the voter registration record of people all over America Is a form of intimidation, that's a form of harassment.”

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  23. “Well, you know, I think the person we have in Washington today is uncaring, know very, very little about the struggle and the history of the civil rights movement. Black and white people died. They gave their lives. I think about Andy Goodman, Mika Schurner, James Shaney. I think about Viola Luzo. This white housewife who came from Detroit, who was shot, murdered. On a highway between Selma and Montgomery. By the clan, and countless individuals. Gave everything they had.”

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  24. “I'm honored to be in your presence, to be here with you. I must tell you we have come a distance. We made progress, but there are forces in America trying to slow us down or take us back When I think about what happened here in American South. Not just in Selma, but all across the South, in Mississippi, in Georgia, in Tennessee, where people had to go through Past a so called literature test. People were asked to come to them of bubbles on a bar of soap. There were African American lawyers and doctors, college professors, high school principals, housewives and farmers were told over and over again that they failed the so-called literature test. So we had to do what we did.”

    2017-07-15 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 162 - Rep. John Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source