"If this president makes good on his threats to undermine [the] election...many of us will be called to pour into the streets and face the brutality of Trump’s goons. This thought makes me feel ground down and frightened, not brave and defiant."
nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opi…
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nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opi…
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"In middle age I’ve started to envy those like Lewis who are able to believe in God.
But something I take from reading about the lives of civil rights heroes is that confidence didn’t always precede action. Sometimes it was action’s result."
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But something I take from reading about the lives of civil rights heroes is that confidence didn’t always precede action. Sometimes it was action’s result."
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"The first time Lewis was arrested, 'a lifetime of absorbed taboos against any kind of trouble with the law quickened into terror.' But on the ride to jail, 'dread gave way to an exhilaration unlike any he had ever known.'"
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"Lewis would later describe it as a sense of liberation, of crossing over. He and his fellow activists showed that hope is as much a practice as a feeling."
Amen and hallelujah, @michelleinbklyn
I needed this today 💚💪🇺🇸☀️
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Amen and hallelujah, @michelleinbklyn
I needed this today 💚💪🇺🇸☀️
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