Political Quotes

“in his powerful eulogy for Congressman John Lewis, President Barack Obama described John Lewis as a man who ``brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.'' President Obama went on to say, ``And someday when we do finish that long journey towards freedom, when we do form a more perfect union-- whether it's years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries--John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.'' Such a beautiful and fitting epitaph. Another founder of that ``fuller, fairer, better America'' was the Reverend Dr. C.T. Vivian. C.T. Vivian and John Lewis departed this life on the same day. The timing of their leaving is proof, perhaps, that Mark Twain was right when he said that history does not repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. Who was C.T. Vivian? Martin Luther King called him ``the greatest preacher ever to live.'' The Reverend Gerald Durley, who met C.T. Vivian in 1960 when Durley was a member of the Nashville Student Movement and who delivered the eulogy at his home going, called Dr. Vivian ``the most patient impatient man'' he ever met. Patient with people but impatient with injustice. C.T. Vivian was mentor to John Lewis, Diane Nash, and many other brave young civil rights activists a half century ago. Before they sat at those segregated lunch counters or boarded those Freedom Rider buses, Dr.…”