My tendency to skip meals.
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John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
United States · 1940–2020
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Served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia from 1987 until his death in 2020. Chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was one of the original Freedom Riders, and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he was badly beaten.
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When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
When I was growing up I wanted to be a minister. I wanted to preach.
As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
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