U.S. Congressman John Lewis was beaten nearly to death by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 9, 1965.
Last weekend he returned to that bridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”
Lewis has said that his parents told him as a young child in the segregated South his parents told him not to get in trouble, not to make noise, not to get in the way.
One of my proud possessions is a t-shirt Becky brought from a service event she did when she worked at Timberland Corp.
John Lewis was the featured speaker, and the t-shirt simply proclaims: GET IN THE WAY
Last weekend, Lewis told the crowd at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, “Don’t give up on things of great meaning to you. Don’t get lost in a sea of despair. Stand up for what you believe.”
Mr. Lewis is a great man of great courage and faith. I suspect he’d encourage us, when we see injustice, to make some noise and get in the way.
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