Andrew Aydin Quotes

#1. Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

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#2. I think people who agree with Donald Trump have repeatedly made the case that he should be able to say whatever he wants to say, it's time someone did that. But as we go and speak to the kids, the young people who are reading March, we see the fear, we hear them tell us how scared they are.

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#3. You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.

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#4. We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

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#5. One of the biggest challenges for us is that people have different accounts. People say different things happened at different times, and when you're trying to sort through all that, how do you decide what's right?

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#6. People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

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#7. So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

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#8. If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

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#9. I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.

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