Tweet Wisdom of John Lewis

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John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 6m
We are permitting the incarceration and shooting of thousands of black and brown boys in their formative years.

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 4m
Young people who might have become great artists, leaders, scientists, or lawyers if we offered them our support instead of our suspicion.

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 3h
I urge every person in this conflict to allow the whole truth to emerge so that true peace & real justice will be the result #Ferguson

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 3h
What kind of a police department is it that would refer to the people it should be trying to protect as animals?

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 3h
This is a good time to consider the words of MLK Jr., who said that "Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice."

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 3h
This is not China or Russia or Syria. This is America, and in this country we have a right to protest in an orderly non-violent fashion.

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 4h
How many more young men of color will be killed before we realize that we have a problem in America? #Ferguson

John Lewis @repjohnlewis · 4h
The death of Michael Brown is a grave tragedy the community of #Ferguson, Missouri should not have to bear.




May 24, 1961: With his head still bandaged from a previous beating, young John Lewis is arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with 26 other Freedom Riders, for the "crime" of riding in the "Whites Only" section of an interstate bus. Bettmann/Corbis

[deminks]

1. He absolutely would know.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/07/07/getting-good-trouble-john-lewis-got-busted-53-years-ago-using-white-toilet

[Dragonfli]

2. Every one of those tweets is absolutely correct.

I would say IMO, but those truths are far more axiomatic than mere opinion.