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  • We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

    "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.