, which was being held Thursday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where he worshiped and his mentor, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., preached.
“Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe,” Lewis wrote. “In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.”Lewis also recalls what he learned from King, whose sermons he had discovered while scanning the radio dial as a 15-year-old boy growing up in then-segregated Alabama.
“He said we are all complicit when we tolerate injustice,” Lewis wrote. “He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out.”Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning.
Software interests...? I WONDER.
Thank you Honorable Mr. John Lewis, for your courage, service and let freedom ring.
shot the gray shutup
He also spent his whole life sucking money off taxpayers
Rest Heavenly, Mr. Lewis. This world is a better place because of you.
Young people? He was a champion for abortion. An architect of the culture of death. His legacy is millions of aborted babies and Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods. BlackGenocide
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