Courage is not heroic but as necessary as birds need wings to fly | To end the violence here at home and violence abroad |
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He boycotted Bush 43 also because he | Lewis was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963 |
Stated on Finding Your Roots, PBS, March 25, 2012• During the civil rights struggle, Lewis was arrested approximately 40 times.
2I believe that this idea is one of those immutable principles that is nonnegotiable if you're going to create a world community at peace with itself | In 1963, Lewis became chairman of the |
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Lewis was severely beaten once more, this time suffering a fractured skull | In 1986, he was elected to the |
he doesn't believe Bush is the true elected president.
Don't get in the way | You have to make a little noise |
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You have to move your feet | Most importantly, he oversaw multiple renewals of the Voting Rights Act |
After won the presidency in 2008, Lewis stated that "When we were organizing voter-registration drives, going on the Freedom Rides, sitting in, coming here to Washington for the first time, getting arrested, going to jail, being beaten, I never thought — I never dreamed — of the possibility that an.