"Because of you, John."

[babylonsister]

Both men are my heroes.


As Obama left his swearing in, Lewis approached him with a sheet of paper and asked the new President, the first black President, to sign it. And he did. He wrote, “Because of you, John. Barack Obama.”


https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-ongoing-struggle-of-john-lewis
The Ongoing Struggle of John Lewis
By David Remnick

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1. You. Both.

[crickets]

2. What a wonderful story. The entire article is well worth the read.

There is another short one linked at the end:

John Lewis’s Legacy and America’s Redemption
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/27/how-to-redeem-america

And so there were times when Lewis, who died on Friday, at the age of eighty, might have felt the temptation at times to give up, to give way. But it was probably his most salient characteristic that he always refused despair; with open eyes, he acknowledged the darkest chapters of American history yet insisted that change was always possible. Recently, he took part in a Zoom town hall with Barack Obama and a group of activists, and told them that he had been inspired by the weeks of demonstrations for racial justice across the country. The protesters, he said, will “redeem the soul of America and move closer to a community at peace with itself.”

Thanks for linking to the article, babylonsister.