John Lewis has died
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John Lewis has died
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#2He was 80 when he died and not all that young when he took a stand.
We are closer to barbarity in time and in fact than we are comfortable acknowledging. Vale.
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#3Another reminder of the importance of taking the periodic, thoughtful moment to document the type of imprint each of us would like to have left on this world once we're gone.
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#4He was my representative before redistricting.
If you don't know his story, it's worth taking the time. He got himself beat up to unconsciousness so that the rest of the United States would not be able to ignore the brutality of its racist South.
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#5He was 80 when he died and not all that young when he took a stand. We are closer to barbarity in time and in fact than we are comfortable acknowledging. Vale.
If Bill Gates has been born black in my Maryland county, he’d have gone to segregated schools until high school.
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#6I didn't align with the man politically, but I admire how much of his life he spent working to improve this country for others. A life well lived.
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#7Worth mentioning about another civil rights leader whom we had lost few months ago - Elijah Cummings.
Edit -
I was waiting for Obama's statement, and here it's - https://medium.com/@BarackObama/my-statement-on-the-passing-...
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#8Big loss at one of the most pressing time in American history. Here he is advocating non-violence and peaceful protests and wishing well to the people of Hong Kong: https://twitter.com/RepTomSuozzi/status/1187375246204162053
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#9Big loss at one of the most pressing time in American history. Here he is advocating non-violence and peaceful protests and wishing well to the people of Hong Kong: https://twitter.com/RepTomSuozzi/status/1187375246204162053
It’s funny, because HK protestors have engaged in “violence”
(It’s also funny that it’s only called violence when normal ppl do it, and not when the state does it)
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#10I didn't align with the man politically, but I admire how much of his life he spent working to improve this country for others. A life well lived.
He's known politically for ending racial segregation.