Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
Intersected because my father returned from the march on washington and began raving about a speaker, young john lewis, who had electrified the crowd. So, imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976, as a young law student. Hit was a transcendent moment, like meeting a figure like Thomas Jefferson or benjamin franklin, who wrote the declaration of independence, but yet, here is somebody who made america live up to those noble words. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy, and a young, joseph lowery, ct vivian, another lion who we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity, and ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit, myself included. Thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protest and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero, but john was a womens rights hero. A gay rights hero. A Senior Rights hero. A worke
Returned from the march on washington and he began raving about a speaker, Young John Lewis who had electrified the crowd. And so imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976 as a young law student, it was a transcendent moment like meeting a historical figure Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin who wrote the declaration of independence but yet here was someone who had made america live up to those noble words. Right. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy and andy young and Joseph Lowrie and ct vivian and another lion we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity and an ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit. Myself included. And thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protests and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero. But john was a womens rights hero. A gay rights hero. A Senior Rights hero. A worke
Again, in 1963, our lives intersected because my father returned from the march on washington. He began raving about a speaker, Young John Lewis who had electrified the crowd. And so imagine when i finally met him in atlanta in 1976 as a young law student, it was a transcendent moment like meeting historical figure Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin who wrote the declaration of independence but yet, here was someone who had made america live up to those noble words. Along with dr. King and reverend abernathy and andy young and Joseph Lowery and c. T. Vivian, another lion who we lost on the same day as john lewis. John had an incorruptible integrity, an ideological purity which was like a halo. Somehow this extended to everyone who was in his orbit. Myself included. And thats the reason the nation has paused from pandemic and protests and politics to bid him farewell today. Virtually every News Organization has hailed john as a civil rights hero. But john was a womens rights hero, a
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