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Speaking to young people he often challenged them: “If you see something that’s not right, not fair, not just, do something about it. Say something. Do something. Have the courage. Have the backbone to get in the way.”pic.twitter.com/kv8pMEhejT
He was a son of the South, and we could easily tick off a list of his heroics in the face of the awful terrorism used to protect white supremacy in that region.pic.twitter.com/nVLW2Gfz69
Sometimes we in SNCC were awed by his bravery, as we were by the bravery of many of those around us from Fannie Lou Hamer to Amzie Moore to Ella Baker and countless others.pic.twitter.com/tPYzfB4NAQ
For none of us in the Movement stood alone. We were all part of a larger community of those who had long struggled for justice, some before we were born. Beyond that, John was also a son of America, well aware of its flaws, particularly with regard to racial inequities.pic.twitter.com/bos6CLTj19
He was always challenging the shortcomings that prevented this country from achieving its promise. He believed that Black lives mattered and struggled to make this so. It is this that links the life of John Lewis to today’s struggle, led by the movement for Black lives.pic.twitter.com/SSETjYwC8N
Do not think then, of John Lewis the icon, or John Lewis the congressperson, or even John Lewis “the legend,” but rather, of the John Lewis who almost from childhood was always willing to “get in the way” of wrong.pic.twitter.com/KcokXkBmW0
His parents were sharecroppers and he grew up on a small farm in rural Alabama; so in following his life, we are forced to consider the potential power of ordinary people who decide to stand up, speak for themselves, and fight for what is right.pic.twitter.com/Qiw1Vte8fP
Like those who worked with us in the 1960s, these are the people who compose today’s movement and are in part enabled by the earlier work of John Lewis and others.pic.twitter.com/OGuxuIRKAG
We know that John saw an important part of himself in the movement that is now unfolding, even when he disagreed with them as he sometimes did; just as Martin Luther King saw part of himself in SNCC and sometimes disagreed with us, too.pic.twitter.com/2UIQZPsv25
John joined the board of King’s organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1962. In this we find another lesson of John’s life: While organized effort is necessary, organizations come, go, transform themselves, and leave legacies.pic.twitter.com/e5uvR7NFT1
What really counts is a life-long commitment to work with others to build a more just world. Clearer now than ever, the great lesson of John’s life is that we need to take on the unfinished business of change.pic.twitter.com/Myk7lyRMay
There is urgency to this and we could sometimes hear it in John’s voice. There is a reason thousands of mostly young people have been in the streets for months. There is a reason to listen to them; John understood that and welcomed it. Let that not be lost.pic.twitter.com/arP4ti645R
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