Posted on 01/14/2017 4:02:11 PM PST by BobNative
Friend --
Today, Donald Trump attacked me on Twitter. He said that I'm "all talk" and "no action."
I've been beaten bloody, tear-gassed, fighting for what's right for America. I've marched at Selma with Dr. King. Sometimes that's what it takes to move our country in the right direction.
We refuse to stop now. We're not done fighting for progress. We're ready for the next four years.
Are you with us? Join me and chip in whatever you can today to help Democrats stand up to injustice.
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While we have made progress toward a vision of a more fair, just and open country, the majority of Americans are afraid this country is headed in the wrong direction.
Some leaders reject decades of progress and want to return to the dark past, when the power of law was used to deny the freedoms protected by the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and its Amendments.
I remember when segregation was the law of the land that ordered our society in the Deep South. The forces of law and order in Alabama were so strong that to take a stand against this injustice, we had to be willing to sacrifice our lives for our cause.
It took massive, well-organized, non-violent dissent and criticism of this great nation and its laws to move toward a greater sense of equality in America. We had to sit in. We had to stand in. We had to march. And that's why more than 50 years ago, a group of unarmed citizens, black and white, gathered on March 7, 1965, in an orderly peaceful non-violent fashion to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Often, the only way we could demonstrate that a law on the books violated a higher law was by challenging that law. By putting our bodies on the line and showing the world the unholy price we had to pay for dignity and respect.
We need leaders who will stand up and speak up and speak out for Americans, not someone who will work against us. Not someone who will move us backwards.
That's why I will do everything in my power to take on injustice. Will you join me?
Chip in now and help us keep working for what is right:
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Thank you for all that you do for this great country,
John Lewis
Does Marse Pelosi know he's talking up to da other white folk?
He refereed him as Donald Trump, no President elect etc.
Stupid is as Lewis does...
John Lewis is a race hustling democrat politician. Case closed.
He’s a racist.
Is this for real?
Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!
Whatever he did with Martin Luther King, it pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died on foreign battlefields.
Every time he is challenged for his Leftist chatter, he ducks behind what supposedly happened fifty years ago.
He has lived and basked in ease and comfort ever since.
Give it a rest!!!!!
Has he done anything since, uhhh, 1965?
Frankly his status as a civil rights (???) does not confer lifetime immunity from criticism for the failures of his tenure in congress.
I get Lewis’ eMails. It is real.
We must always watch what the Enemy is doing.
John Screwus had a screw loose.
ESAD you collectivist, racist IDIOT.
No cred, punk.
“”That’s why I will do everything in my power to take on injustice””
Been in the House of Representatives since 1987 and there’s injustice in his world? It amazes how these people can still cry “poor me” when they are at the troughs whether in show business or politics...some at the top of the ladder income wise and we need to hear about INEQUALITY from these jerks? Their standards of measurement are sure a lot different than ours...
Apparently not enough.
Some leaders reject decades of progress and want to return to the dark past, when the power of law was used to deny the freedoms protected by the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and its Amendments.
I'm sure he's referring to the Gun Control Acts of 1934 and 1968, as well as the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, right?
ROFL!!!! The astronauts were actually BLACK WOMEN!!
Good make up.
Yes, he is a shabby little man with an ego problem.
Laporsche kaneesha jamaal washington... First human to walk the moon.
LOL
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