Posted on 07/17/2020 9:13:11 PM PDT by bitt
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the renowned civil rights leader who served as a symbol of the movement throughout his more than three decades in Congress, died Friday at the age of 80.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. on “Bloody Sunday,” Lewis decisively carved a place for himself in the history books as a courageous young activist during the height of the civil rights movement.
He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district. While in Congress, Lewis served as a physical reminder of how far the country had come on civil rights — and how much more was left to be done.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), of which Lewis was one of its most senior members, mourned that “the world has lost a legend.”
“The Congressional Black Caucus is known as the Conscience of the Congress. John Lewis was known as the conscience of our caucus,” the CBC said in a statement. Lewis, the youngest keynote speaker at the March on Washington in 1963, was the only person who delivered remarks at the event to witness Barack Obama winning election as the nation’s first African American president 45 years later.
When Lewis asked Obama to sign a commemorative photograph at his 2009 inauguration, the newly sworn-in president wrote: “Because of you, John.”
Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940 to a family of sharecroppers on a farm outside of Troy, Ala., and attended segregated public schools. Inspired by the activism demonstrated by Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis began his work of what he liked to call “good trouble.”
Lewis started his civil rights activism by organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in Nashville,
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Bye. Too bad he wasn’t smart enough to leave the plantation once he got free. Hope Nancy doesn’t hurt herself tottering to get to the podium first.
Lewis did more harm to genuine civil rights than he did good for them. He was a tool of the radical Left.
RIP
John Glenn was the same way. Only reason to be a democrap, is it’s the only way to rob a bank and still get honored as a statesman. RIP Milk-dud! You can explain your life of lies and corruption to the Lord.
“He was elected to Congress in 1986 and served 17 terms representing an Atlanta-area district. While in Congress, Lewis served as a physical reminder of how far the country had come on civil rights — and how much more was left to be done.”
That’s his highest achievement in 34 years they could come up with, that he sat on his chair as a reminder?
A black wooden dummy would have served the same purpose and cost a lot less.
Served 17 terms and dies on July 17. For some odd reason 17 has been popping up alot. LOL
He died in mid yell.
It will turn into a Trump hatefest.
I hope he is with Christ in Heaven, but I am surely glad he is gone from Congress.
Another communist gone
“Our nation is founded on the principle that we do not have kings. We have presidents. And the constitution is our compass. When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something. To do something. Our children and their children will ask us, “What did you do? What did you say?” For some, this vote may be hard. But we have a mission and a mandate to be on the right side of history.”
— Rep. John Lewis
“When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have a moral obligation to say something”
Doing something about it is something else.
Does he get a gold coffin?
Really? Do a google search.
If the horse races were running, and I was a gambler, I'd bet the daily double 1 & 7, and 7 & 1...to win, place and show.
Hell no!! I don't want to see his ugly face when I get there.
Another America hating traitor is dead! Good riddance to this hateful racist!
+1000! Exactly!!
Voting for abortion, homosexuality, participating in treasonous acts. Was there any public repentance or disavowal of his actions? Get real!
I had thought the same thing.
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