~~June 23, 2016~~
JOHN LEWIS … CIVIL RIGHTS ICON
We have a mission, a mandate, and a moral obligation to speak up and speak out until the House votes to address gun violence.
We have turned deaf ears to the blood of the innocent and the concern of our nation. We will use nonviolence to fight gun violence and inaction.
Senator John Lewis
Democratic representative John Lewis called his colleagues to join him as he spoke on the House floor Wednesday< June 22, afternoon.
A few dozen traveled down the aisles and fanned out on either side of Lewis’s podium as he began:
“What would bring this body to take action? What would finally make Congress do what is right, what is just, what the people of this country have been demanding, and what is long overdue? We have lost hundreds of thousands of innocent people to gun violence.”
Lewis, who fought on the front lines of the civil-rights movement, delivered an impassioned speech about the need for action — for House Speaker Paul Ryan to simply allow a vote — on gun-control measures.
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