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Civil rights leader and longtime US congressman John Lewis spent his life fighting for freedom and justice for everyone. In this illuminating conversation with lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson, Lewis discusses the essential importance of voting, shares encouraging words of wisdom for the generation of young people currently organizing in the struggle for racial justice and tells moving stories from his decades of making "good trouble" — at the Freedom Rides, March on Washington and in the halls of Congress. "When you see something that's not right or fair or just, you have to say something," Lewis says. "You have to do something." (This conversation is part of the TED Legacy Project. Recorded November 19, 2019)
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“Spirituality is fundamentally a quest for freedom—freedom from certain things and freedom for certain things. Seen in this way, the picture becomes more complete. For you have a greater destiny in the world, a greater purpose for being here, a purpose that you are not living now, despite your definitions and proclamations. It is to free you from the life that you are living now to prepare you for a greater life in service to the world that represents the core and essence of all spiritual development.”
The fight for freedom mist first be fought in our own lives. God has sent a New Message to empower all individuals to reclaim their own freedom and use it in service to humanity so that it may become a truly free and united race in the universe where freedom is so very rare. Explore its teachings at *NewMessage.org*
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Yes, the recent Riots and LOOTING ! proved how wonderful Africans in America is. … please more foreigners ..
The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
Rest in peace Brother John
Dr. Been YT Channel he gets diseases…we all all different …you can’t blanket vaccinate..FACT
Strange they said he was dead a week before he actually died. Whats that all about. *twighlight zone music*
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Thank you for this. It has educated me on perspective and peace.
“If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?”
–John Lewis
John Lewis was an amazing, brave person and leader. He will be missed by everyone. RIP brother❤️
RIP❤️
I love Just Mercy and Stevenson! So inspiring!!
Yes, the recent Riots and LOOTING ! proved how wonderful Africans in America is. … please more foreigners ..
Now there was a glimpse of what Steve Jobs so poignantly articulated,”We are here to make a dent in the universe; why else would we be here?”
Empathy and uprightness (integrity+humility) are the cornerstones of humanity, this TED legacy talk will advance the collective consciousness of the planet (and beyond, someday soon) irreversibly.
Love and much gratitude to the TED team from Goa, India: The proverbial El Dorado that has gotten used to *NOT* seeing an iota of justice since liberation in 1961