Posted on Dec 26, 2020
John Lewis: A Civil Rights Legend Who Saw Humanity in His Oppressors
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Never stop fighting the good fight Brother William: PO1 William "Chip" Nagel thanks for the read/share of the most informative.
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Good article. Copy-paste of quotes about how his civil rights work was about outreach to those who were oppressors and not retribution...
"In 2019, at the start of the Democratic presidential primary, when rivals attacked Biden for having dealt in the Senate of the 1970s with white supremacists like Mississippi’s James Eastland, Lewis defended Biden. “At the height of the civil rights movement,” he reminded voters, “we worked with people and got to know people who were members of the Klan, people who opposed us, even people who beat us, arrested us and jailed us. We never gave up on our fellow human beings.” "
"In 2019, at the start of the Democratic presidential primary, when rivals attacked Biden for having dealt in the Senate of the 1970s with white supremacists like Mississippi’s James Eastland, Lewis defended Biden. “At the height of the civil rights movement,” he reminded voters, “we worked with people and got to know people who were members of the Klan, people who opposed us, even people who beat us, arrested us and jailed us. We never gave up on our fellow human beings.” "
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