Read the transcript here. He fought the good fight, he kept the faith, but we got our last letter today on the pages of the New York Times.
"He never lost heart. I think he figured that if Thomas Merton could find his way and keep his faith and believe in the future, he, John Lewis could too.So we honor our friend for his faith and for living his faith, which the Scripture said is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis were among the architects of the strategy which ultimately led to desegregation in this country.New Chicago looting video released as feds investigate hundreds of digital leads Downtown business owners reevaluate amid pandemic, unrestCensus cowboys ride to low-response neighborhoods so people can be countedAmerican Academy of Pediatrics releases kids face mask guidanceCPD monitors social media as crime-fighting strategy; some urge caution'I wish I had my baby back': $10K reward offered in Hammond toddler's shooting death45K still without power days after severe storms; south suburbs hit hardestChicago could be next COVID-19 hotspot, researchers warn Illinois reports 1,834 new coronavirus cases, 24 deaths

First, I thank John-Miles and the Lewis family and John’s incomparable staff for a chance to say a few words about a man I loved for a long time. His homegoing has been something to behold. I thank my friend, Reverend Bernice King, who stood by my side and gave a fascinating sermon in one of the most challenging periods of my life.I thank President and Mrs. Bush, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, thank you and Rep. Hoyer and Rep. Clyburn, who I really thank for with a stroke of a hand, ending an intrafamily fight within our party, proving that peace is needed by everyone. As John’s brother Freddie said in Troy, keep moving to the ballot box even if it’s a mailbox, and keep moving to the beloved community.John Lewis was many things, but he was a man, a friend and sunshine in the storm, a friend who would walk the stony road that he asked you to walk, that would brave the chastening rods he asked you to be whipped by, always keeping his eyes on the prize, always believing none of us would be free until all of us are equal. But no matter what, John always kept walking to reach the beloved community. He’s gone up yonder and left us with marching orders. So he’s getting ready to march from Selma to Montgomery, he wants to get across the bridge. Now, young people probably think that’s no big deal but there weren’t that many backpacks back then.

I suggest since he’s close enough to God to keep his eye on the sparrow and on us, we salute, suit up and march on. On Friday, the nation lost two giants of the civil rights movement who were among the architects of the strategy which ultimately led to desegregation in this country.John Lewis, the lion of the civil rights movement with a long and celebrated career in Congress, has died. Former President Bill Clinton, along with George W. Bush and Barack Obama, attended Rep. John Lewis' funeral Thursday.Rep. or 'what do you wish you had done that you didn’t?' I always will. President Bill Clinton gave a eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on July 30. What’s a young guy who’s about to get his brains beat out and planning on going to prison doing taking that? C.T. But John put an apple, an orange, a toothbrush, toothpaste to take care of his body ‘cause he figured he would get arrested. Someone asked me that night, because I had many friends in Atlanta, and I said, if I could do just one thing, if God came to me tonight and said, 'OK your time is up, you gotta go home, and I’m not a genie, I’m not giving you three wishes. (OPINION) "John Lewis practiced the politics not of what we call bipartisan, John Lewis practiced the politics of We the People. Nobody knows what happened to it.

Martin Luther King Jr. has died. And I’m so grateful that he stayed true to form. He got into a lot of good trouble along the way, but let’s not forget, he developed an absolutely uncanny ability to heal troubled waters. He hoped for and imagined and lived and worked and moved for his beloved community. He never lost heart. And this is really important for all the rhapsodic things we believe about John Lewis, he had a really good mind and he was always trying to figure out how I can make the most out of every single moment. And you never saw anybody in a trenchcoat looking halfway dressed up with a backpack. It made him more interesting, and it made him, in my mind, even greater.Twenty years ago, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Selma March and we walked together along with Coretta and many others from the movement who are no longer with us. Both died within 24-hours of each other on Friday. He cut quite a strange figure: He had a trenchcoat and a backpack. He was 80.A civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev.
I think it’s important to remember that, first because he's a quick thinker, and secondly because he was here on a mission that was bigger than personal ambition. And he said, well, once we were at a demonstration and I got knocked down on the ground and people were getting beat up pretty bad, and there was a man holding up a long, heavy piece of pipe and he lifted it and was clearly gonna bring it right down to my skull.

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