It must have been painful to lose, but he showed as a young man there’s some things that you just cannot do to hang on to a position because if you do, then, you won’t be who you are anymore.
It must have been painful to lose, but he showed as a young man there’s some things that you just cannot do to hang on to a position because if you do, then, you won’t be who you are anymore. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., died at the age of 80 after announcing in December his diagnosis of Stage IV pancreatic cancer after decades of fighting for civil rights and social justice on the frontlines and in the corridors of Congress. He thought the open hand was better than the clenched fist. I suggest since he’s close enough to God to keep his eye on the sparrow and on us, we salute, suit up and march on. Our President Barack Obama gave a beautiful speech that demanded a whole lot of systemic changes. Word? As John’s brother Freddie said in Troy, keep moving to the ballot box even if it’s a mailbox, and keep moving to the beloved community. ', But on that night, I was almost out of time and to be President, people were asking me, 'well, if you could do one more thing what it would be?' Bill Clinton Comes Under Fire For Comments At John Lewis Funeral You Don’t Even Go Here: Bill Clinton Got DRAGGED For Insulting Kwame Ture During John Lewis’ Funeral Posted on July 31, 2020 - Bydaviddtss 1of 11 I think it’s important to remember that, first because he's a quick thinker, and secondly because he was here on a mission that was bigger than personal ambition. Bossip Comment Policy Good trouble means changing the Dems. pic.twitter.com/Eo1uOI0mST, — francesca quarantini (@franifio) July 31, 2020, “Just three years later, he lost the leadership of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael because it was a pretty good job for a guy that young and come from Troy, Alabama. John Lewis was many things, but he was a man, a friend and sunshine in the storm, a friend who would walk the stony road that he asked you to walk, that would brave the chastening rods he asked you to be whipped by, always keeping his eyes on the prize, always believing none of us would be free until all of us are equal. I mean, if I had hair like that, I’d have it down to my shoulders.
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He cut quite a strange figure: He had a trenchcoat and a backpack. We had beautiful tributes honoring his greatness as a politician and a man. Now, young people probably think that’s no big deal but there weren’t that many backpacks back then. But John put an apple, an orange, a toothbrush, toothpaste to take care of his body ‘cause he figured he would get arrested. I always will. We are here today because he had the kind of character he showed when he lost an election.”. Keep moving. or 'what do you wish you had done that you didn’t?' and all that kind of stuff. Things like that sometimes just happen, but usually they don’t. We honor that memory today because he learned to walk with the wind, to march with others to save a tiny house, because as a young man, he challenged others to join him with love and dignity to hold America’s house down and open the doors of America to all its people. John Lewis’ homegoing service was a thing of beauty.
He lived by the faith and promise of St. Paul: Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not lose heart. You have faced more than a fair share of challenges in these past few months, and you have faced them with candor and dignity and honor and I thank you for your leadership. Clinton, Biden, and their fascist racist Dems running the show can f’ off… Red and Blue is a white supremacy trap. One thing, what would it be?'. And he listened to people that he knew had the same goals say, well, we have to be careful how we say this because we’re trying to get converts, not more adversaries. So he’s getting ready to march from Selma to Montgomery, he wants to get across the bridge. Second, nearly twenty years later, when he was 23, the youngest speaker and the last speaker at the March on Washington, when he gave a great speech urging people to take to the streets across the South to see the chance to finally end racism. Then, there was Bloody Sunday, he figured he might get arrested.
I think he figured that if Thomas Merton could find his way and keep his faith and believe in the future, he, John Lewis could too.
And two books, one by Richard Hofstadter on America’s political tradition to feed his mind, and one, the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a Roman Catholic Trappist monk who was the son of itinerant artists making an astonishing personal transformation. Bill has earned the love and trust of a lot of Black Americans but more interrogation of his history has made him more criticized than before. By continuing to use this site, you agree to our updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Thursday, Clinton spoke of Lewis' humanity, strength and his unwavering belief in a future without racism. I am grateful, Pastor Warnock, to say it in Ebenezer, a holy place sanctified by both the faith and the works of those who have worshipped here. As a result, Bill has gotten rightfully dragged for this big trash moment. © 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. And at the very last second, I turned my neck away and the crowd pushed him a little bit and a couple seconds later, I couldn't believe I was still alive. And you never saw anybody in a trenchcoat looking halfway dressed up with a backpack. Madam Mayor, thank you.
First, I thank John-Miles and the Lewis family and John’s incomparable staff for a chance to say a few words about a man I loved for a long time. Maybe someone someday will be stricken with conscience and give some of it back. Someone asked me that night, because I had many friends in Atlanta, and I said, if I could do just one thing, if God came to me tonight and said, 'OK your time is up, you gotta go home, and I’m not a genie, I’m not giving you three wishes. I said: I would infect every American with whatever it was that John Lewis got as a 4-year-old kid and took through a lifetime to keep moving and to keep moving in the right direction and keep bringing other people to move and to do it without hatred in his heart, with a song and to be able to sing and dance. And he lost that backpack on Bloody Sunday.
"He never lost heart. He’s not doing himself any favors by saying things like this: Oh Bill, you patronizing old white man responsible for locking up thousands of black men. I think it’s important that all of us who loved him remember that he was, after all, a human being, a man like all other humans, born with strengths that he made the most of when many don’t, born with weaknesses that he worked hard to beat down when many can’t, but still a person. First, the famous story of John at 4 with his cousins and siblings, holding his aunt’s hand, more than a dozen of them, running around in a little old wooden house as the wind threatened to blow the house off its moorings, going to the place where the house was rising and all the tiny bodies trying to weigh it down.
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