Political Quotes

“on Friday, July 17, after six decades as one of our Nation's most preeminent civil rights leaders, Congressman John Lewis--the conscience of the Congress--passed away at the age of 80. His trials and tribulations and, ultimately, his triumphs are well known to all of us. At the ripe old age of 25, he led thousands of marchers across a bridge in Alabama. They risked their lives for their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote and, in doing so, shook the conscience of a nation and hastened the demise of Jim Crow. On that fateful Sunday, battered and bruised, his head dizzy and bleeding from the policeman's rod, John Lewis found the courage and the strength to reach the other side of that bridge, and he never stopped marching. From the Freedom Rides to Selma, from his leadership of the SNCC, to his four decades in Congress, John Lewis never stopped marching. His actions as a young man helped change the trajectory of a nation and brought about the Voting Rights Act, and then John Lewis went to Congress and renewed that law again and again. He sat in against segregation at lunch counters in the Jim Crow South and, over 40 years later, led another sit-in on the House floor against gun violence. He spoke out for marriage equality long before it was popular. He challenged those who walked the corridors of power and then trod those corridors himself to bring quality healthcare, fair wages, and social justice to Georgians and Americans everywhere.…”