Nobody knows what happened to it. Both died within 24-hours of each other on Friday.
Maybe someone someday will be stricken with conscience and give some of it back.
He took a savage beating on more than one day.
When he could have been angry and determined to cancel his adversaries, he tried to get converts instead.He thought the open hand was better than the clenched fist. (OPINION) "John Lewis practiced the politics not of what we call bipartisan, John Lewis practiced the politics of We the People. You have faced more than a fair share of challenges in these past few months, and you have faced them with candor and dignity and honor and I thank you for your leadership.I must say, for a fella who got his start speaking to chickens, John’s gotten a pretty finely organized and orchestrated and deeply deserved send-off this last week. 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. 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. President Bill Clinton gave a eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on July 30. "Thursday, Clinton spoke of Lewis' humanity, strength and his unwavering belief in a future without racism. 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 he listened to people that he knew had the same goals say, well, we have to be careful how we say this because we’re trying to get converts, not more adversaries. He lived by the faith and promise of St. Paul: Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not lose heart. https://abcnews.go.com/.../bill-clinton-speaks-john-lewis-funeral-72080688 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. John Lewis was a walking rebuke to people who thought, 'well, we ain’t there yet, we’ve been working a long time, isn’t it time to bag it?'
So he’s getting ready to march from Selma to Montgomery, he wants to get across the bridge. 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. Here's more about his life.CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Friday, the nation lost two giants of the civil rights movement. I just loved him. 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.
'"Thank you very much. Just three years later, he lost the leadership of SNCC to Stokely Carmichael because it was a pretty good job for a guy that young and come from Troy, Alabama. 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. Read the transcript here. Keep moving. It is so fitting on the day of his service, he leaves us our marching orders: Keep moving.Twenty years ago, when I came here after the Selma march to a big dinner honoring John and Lillian and John-Miles, you had a big Afro and it was really pretty, and your daddy was giving you grief about it, and I said to John, 'let’s not get old too soon. 'I said: I would infect every American with whatever it was that John Lewis got as a 4-year-old kid and took through a lifetime to keep moving and to keep moving in the right direction and keep bringing other people to move and to do it without hatred in his heart, with a song and to be able to sing and dance.
Things like that sometimes just happen, but usually they don’t.I think three things happened to John Lewis long before we met and became friends that made him who he was.
and all that kind of stuff. We honor him because on Selma, on the third attempt, John and his comrades showed that sometimes you have to walk into the wind along with it as he crossed the bridge and marched into Montgomery. Former President Bill Clinton, along with George W. Bush and Barack Obama, attended Rep. John Lewis' funeral Thursday. 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 kept moving. 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. In his stirring eulogy at the funeral service for Congressmember John Lewis, President Barack Obama said expanded voting rights would be the … "It is so fitting on the day of his service, he leaves us our marching orders: 'Keep moving. C.T.