But what it represented never disappeared from John Lewis’ spirit.

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. We've joined the BHM Digital family of websites and have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 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. Keep moving. 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. Don’t you realize during the biggest civil rights uprising in a decade you’re radicalizing an entire new generation, now googling “Stokely Carmichael”? 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. What’s a young guy who’s about to get his brains beat out and planning on going to prison doing taking that?

I think three things happened to John Lewis long before we met and became friends that made him who he was.

Yoko Ono Sues Ex-John Lennon Aide Again for Allegedly Continuing to... Amazon Says More Than 19,000 Employees Contracted Coronavirus, Doc Rivers Lands Sixers Head Coaching Job After Clippers Exit. 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.

John Lewis’ homegoing service was a thing of beauty. 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. '", Barack Obama's eulogy to Lewis:'America was built by John Lewises', George W. Bush's speech on Lewis:'He will live forever in the hearts of Americans'. I just loved him. What do we remember? 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.

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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 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 I say there were two or three years there, where the movement went a little too far towards Stokely, but in the end, John Lewis prevailed.

But on that day, I got him to replay for me a story he told me when we first met back in the 1970s and I said...I was just an aspiring, whatever, Southern politician, and hadn’t been elected governor and he was already a legend.

So we honor our friend for his faith and for living his faith, which the Scripture said is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Thursday, Clinton spoke of Lewis' humanity, strength and his unwavering belief in a future without racism. So he’s getting ready to march from Selma to Montgomery, he wants to get across the bridge. 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. We are here today because he had the kind of character he showed when he lost an election.”.

He took a savage beating on more than one day.

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 this is really important for all the rhapsodic things we believe about John Lewis, he had a really good mind and he was always trying to figure out how I can make the most out of every single moment. He never lost heart.

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Before him came Bill Clinton who eulogized the activist. 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. He fought the good fight, he kept the faith," Clinton said. So I said, John, what’s the closest you’ve ever actually came to getting killed doing this. 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. When John Lewis was alive this is what he had to say about Kwame Ture (Stokley Carmichael). We are here today because he had the kind of character he showed when he lost an election. Nobody knows what happened to it. 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. 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.
And he said, well, once we were at a demonstration and I got knocked down on the ground and people were getting beat up pretty bad, and there was a man holding up a long, heavy piece of pipe and he lifted it and was clearly gonna bring it right down to my skull. and all that kind of stuff.

Hours after Lewis' death was announced on July 18, Clinton shared in a tweet a common sentiment among the politicians who offered statements on him: He was "the conscience of the nation.".

I thank President and Mrs. Bush, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, thank you and Rep. Hoyer and Rep. Clyburn, who I really thank for with a stroke of a hand, ending an intrafamily fight within our party, proving that peace is needed by everyone. As a result, Bill has gotten rightfully dragged for this big trash moment. His homegoing has been something to behold. 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. 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. 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. Then, there was Bloody Sunday, he figured he might get arrested. Madam Mayor, thank you. John Lewis was a walking rebuke to people who thought, 'well, we ain’t there yet, we’ve been working a long time, isn’t it time to bag it?'

"It is so fitting on the day of his service, he leaves us our marching orders: 'Keep moving. Maybe someone someday will be stricken with conscience and give some of it back. Jackson and Diane Nash and many others who survive. ', 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?' I think he learned something about the power of working together, something that was more powerful than any instruction. I must say, for a fella who got his start speaking to chickens, John’s gotten a pretty finely organized and orchestrated and deeply deserved send-off this last week. He’s gone up yonder and left us with marching orders. 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. But no matter what, John always kept walking to reach the beloved community. I always will. We’re grateful for Annie Young and Rev.
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He cut quite a strange figure: He had a trenchcoat and a backpack. Twenty years ago, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Selma March and we walked together along with Coretta and many others from the movement who are no longer with us.

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.