Georgia Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis endorses former VP Joe Biden, calling him “a friend, a man of courage, a man of conscience.”
Lewis, 79, who has served in the House of Representatives since 1987, announced on Sunday he is fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer., calling the Democratic front-runner a “a friend, a man of courage, a man of conscience,” and promising to do whatever he can to support his candidacy.
One of the nation’s most influential voices on civil rights, Lewis was a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and walked alongside the civil rights leader in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, when he was badly beaten by police while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge."I know hatred when I see it. I have felt it. I've stared down the deepest and darkest forces in this nation.
“I think Vice President Biden should look around. It would be good to have a woman of color. It would be good to have a woman. It would be good to have a woman who looks like the rest of America,” Lewis said. Addressing Biden’s relative lack of support among younger African-Americans, Lewis urged those same young voters to turn out, referencing his own past with the civil rights movement and arguing that people died for the right to vote, calling it “the most powerful non-violent instrument or tool that we have in a democratic society.”
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