It's not just Barack Obama, but I doubt Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have made it to the White House without Selma.

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• John Lewis:

  Without our faith, we wouldn't have been able to succeed. On many occasions, before we'd go out on

• John Lewis:

  Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bir

• John Lewis:

  I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful

• John Lewis:

  We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peop

• John Lewis:

  When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't beco

• John Lewis:

  Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfat

• John Lewis:

  We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university i

• John Lewis:

  The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like

• John Lewis:

  Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and yo

• John Lewis:

  You have to be persistent.