In tough times, it is easy to hang back and pretend as if everything is normal. It is much harder to stand up and fight for what you believe in.
Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis passed away yesterday. He was 80 years old.
Born in 1940 to sharecropper parents in Alabama, segregation was part and parcel of the world he grew up in. In the early 1960’s, he joined the Civil Rights movement and was one of the original Freedom Riders. Twenty five years later, he was elected to Congress. On both sides of the political aisle, he was one of the most respected men to have walked through the halls of power.
If there was ever a textbook definition of an American hero, John Lewis’s picture would be front and center. He knew what he believed in and fought for those beliefs, even when victory seemed nearly impossible. As both a Civil Rights leader and a member of Congress, he taught all of what strength and courage look like.
May his memory be a blessing and an inspiration to us all.
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