BREAKING: House Democrats holding "sit-in" on House floor (literally)

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110. John Lewis didn't need inspiration from anyone. And he didn't need to grow a spine.

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He's been standing tall his entire adult life. And he led the way in this protest.

http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/john-lewis

Despite more than forty arrests and serious injuries, John Lewis remains an unrelenting advocate of nonviolence. Serving as the Atlanta, Georgia representative in the US House of Representatives since 1986, his speeches, writings, and voting record show his commitment to a global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the prologue to his autobiography, Walking with the Wind, Lewis states that “Children holding hands, walking with the wind...is America to me--not just the movement for civil rights but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity, and a sense of all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole. That is the story of my life, of the path to which I’ve been committed since I turned from a boy to a man, and to which I remain committed today. It is a path that extends beyond the issue of race alone, and beyond class as well. And gender. And age. And every other distinction that tends to separate us as human beings rather than bring us together. That path...an ideal I discovered as a young man has guided me like a beacon ever since, a concept called the Beloved Community.”

John Lewis has written: “We, the men, women, and children of the civil rights movement, truly believed that if we adhered to the discipline and philosophy of nonviolence, we could help transform America. We wanted to realize…the Beloved Community, an all-inclusive, truly interracial democracy based on simple justice, which respects the dignity and worth of every human being.”