800-433-8850. In the introduction to your book, you say we've come a great distance as a society, but we still have a great distance to go. She was a tailor in Montgomery, Alabama, and also an activist, and worked as the secretary in her local chapter of the NAACP. ALEXI just wanted to call in and say that you're an inspiration to me, particularly in my generation. Eloquent Youll enjoy a masterfully written or presented text. When in fact, a lot of the evidence has shown exactly the opposite, that he has been tutoring blacks, that he has been bending over backwards to help them. For instance he argues that people are born good, and that racism occurs because people have been poorly taught. Historian Douglas Brinkley says Congressman John Lewis is that most rare of politicians. Required fields are marked *. Lots of white people from the South could fight for continuing discrimination. I just re-read this book for a class I'm teaching this semester on the history, philosophy, and practice of nonviolence. John Lewis grew up in an era of racial segregation. However, for John Lewis, all the ambiguity and pain was worthwhile. REHMAnd surely that's got to be one of the life lessons that you talk about in "Across the Bridge.". We will see less. Visionary Youll get a glimpse of the future and what it might mean for you. In this backpack I had two books, had one apple and one orange. Your playing small doesnt serve the world. And you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." And they waited silently as a line at the Registrars Office of Selma for two years. They explain how he was able to face down violence and respond in a non-violent manner to people who thought he was their enemy, and later offer his opponents love and reconciliation. Congressman John Lewis from Georgia is with me this morning. However, patience can be strong leverage for transformations. However, he gifted all the money for the civil rights cause.if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'goodbooksummary_com-leader-2','ezslot_5',116,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-goodbooksummary_com-leader-2-0'); With this altruistic gift, King highlighted the movements fundamental message of inclusion and love for everybody. John Bazemore / AP Just have the feeling that people need to know the lessons that we learn and what we try to do just try to help a little bit. I had the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in mind. His election, in spite of all of us, it lift our dreams, our aspirations, and we should embrace it even today and just think of the distance, the progress we've made, and do what we can to see that this president succeeds. They took huge steps, however, the war has not completely won. This is the typical life path that continues to rule contemporary culture. Before we started sitting in more than 50 years ago, we studied what Gandhi attempted to do in South Africa, what he accomplished in India. It's just dumb. We were consciously aware that unity was our ultimate goal, and if that was truly our aim, we had come to grips with the fact that after all the warring was done, reconciliation, love, and forgiveness would have the final say.. You are a child of God. Finally, Lewis is too liberal for my political views. It is no longer believed. The opening of the eyes of people resembled Lewis of the civil rights movement the robust wind that passed through the US and changed the spiritual identity of the country. They came toward us, beating us, trampling us with horses and they're using the tear gas. People need to be brave and courageous and speak up when you see something that is not right. The bridge stretches about 1,900 feet over I-5, landing at North Seattle College on the west side and at 1st Ave NE and NE 100th St, near the Northgate Station, serving Sound Transit's Link light rail station, on the east side. Lewis devoted his life to stimulate his companion people to turn their inner sparks into fires. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society. 2017. Many of the principles seemed self-evident and therefore not particularly interesting. Find a way to make a way out of no way. And he embraced the people that he grew up with, the black people in the community or Sumter County and Americus and Plains. In Across That Bridge, Congressman John Lewis draws from his experience as a prominent leader of the civil rights movement to offer timeless wisdom, poignant recollections, and powerful principles for anyone interested in challenging injustices and inspiring real change toward a freer, more peaceful society. LEWISYou know, during the '60s, the late A. Philip Randolph used to say when people talk about where people are from, he say, well, maybe our foremothers and our forefathers all came to this great land in different ships, we all in the same boat now. We can talk about ending war and we can march for ending war, we can do everything in our power, but war is never going to end as long as our hearts are hardened against each other. Pema Chdrn, Love: We are all bound by the ties of love Even as there is cohesive force in blind matter so much must there be in all things animate and the name for that cohesive force among animate beings is Love. Mohandas Gandhi, Reconciliation: This little light of mine, Im going to let it shine. Harry Dixon Loes, Your email address will not be published. He has been a member of Congress since 1986. In Across That Bridge, Congressman Lewis draws from his experience as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement to offer timeless guidance to anyone seeking to live virtuously and transform the world. King got over $50,000, in todays value approximately one-half of a million dollars, in1964 as Nobel Peace Prize. When I first came to Congress, I came and Tom Foley was the speaker. . Currently, activists of the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, and the Occupy Movement are battling the same wars that were battled in the civil rights movement. So you have to be prepared. The right to vote is precious. And he's just one of these rare human beings and he doesn't get the credit that he should be receiving. Lewis was a Freedom Rider, spoke at 1963's March on . A young adult was murdered, but there's so much divide and I was surprised. When the police intervened, he refused to sue. John Lewis and activists organized a walk to the state capitol to protest the voter discrimination. Barack Obama praised John Lewis at his funeral: Like many US citizens, I am greatly indebted to John Lewis and his powerful vision of freedom.. You say there is a unique hostility in these times that almost seems worse to me than what we experienced in the 1960s. And the story of Koinonia Farm is an untold story. As I loved his autobiography Walking with the Wind, I was thrilled when my wonderful sister told me about this book and gave me a copy. I also wanted to thank him for being such a role model for college students (unintelligible) on that students can change the world for the better. We will hear less. It's a smaller book, broken up into sections on foundational lessons from Lewis's life, like "Faith," "Patience," "Peace," and "Love." ESAGood morning, Diane. Even as you were facing the dogs and facing the, I mean, segregation and having your right denied and everything, I find today that we're faced with a greater challenge than that, and it comes at the hand -- at the fact that the number of cause of death in America for a black American is abortion. You know, we talk an awful lot in this country about voting and the people who do vote, the people who don't vote, the people who now cannot vote. A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. We come within hearing distance of the State Trooper. Risk-free: no credit card is required. People who even beaten me, left me bloody and unconscious, I've been able to forgive and move on. A contrast is called to mind between the aimless rioting and looting seen in present day, and the studied, planned, non-violent approaches of the earlier era, that led to an end of segregation and other injustices in the American South. They understand. Today we seldom do anything in a bipartisan fashion. LEWISI went to Penn. REHMJohn Lewis, member of the United States Congress from the Fifth District in Georgia. REHMAnd to, pardon me, Wayne in Virginia. WAYNEI'm gonna go on the opposite side of the aisle for a little bit. He decided to learn the ways to assist people who are made resentful by hate. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., the civil rights leader stands beneath a bust of Rev. It's almost sacred. Maybe just maybe the larger society should take a lesson from the civil rights movement. MS. DIANE REHMCongressman Lewis joins me in the studio. During their path throughout the South, activists were brutally attacked by crowds. I said, I'm not going to become bitter, I'm not going to become hostile. We must respect the dignity and the worth of every human being and everybody must be included. Across that bridge : life lessons and a vision for change by Lewis, John, 1940 February 21- . Let's go to Seattle, Wash. Good morning, Kareem, you're on the air. I thought I was going to die. But still today not receiving the proper education to help them mold our new vision of ourselves and the way the country can be. That's not good. My position is very, very simple. He's a person of tremendous faith and he believes that we all are brothers and sisters, that we're one people, we're one family with one house. LEWISWell, the Voting Rights Act is being challenged. I was wearing a backpack, Diane, before it became fashionable to wear a backpack. Short break and we'll be right back. Lewis's Vision for Change" is outstanding. A self-help book for activists, specifically focusing on the values necessary to make change. This graphic memoir tells the story of John Lewis from early childhood to his college years. LEWISWell, in "Across the Bridge" one of the life lessons is study. Why risk beating, torture, even death to sacrifice ourselves within the network of our family, on our jobs, in our communities, the nation, or the world at large for the sake of progress we may not live to see? But we shouldn't be going around putting people down because of their age, race, class. Do join us, 800-433-8850. LEWISDiane, you're so right. Find a summary of this and each chapter of Bridge to Terabithia! From Page 164, "Perhaps the variations in appearance and expression that seem to occupy so much of our concern--tall, short, black, brown, straight hair or curly, white or yellow, fat or slender, gay or straight--are more an expression of the broad imagination of the Creator than they are an indication of our value or worth.". They are again concerned with their responsibilities for the democratic process. I did have a bridge in mind. It was poisoned that we would do everything possible to win and win at any cost. We don't know how to forgive and just move ahead. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. REHMBut haven't Democrats used the filibuster? I just finished reading his 2017 book called Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, in which he told his own story of his path that lead him to the bridge in Alabama that day, his . It is a disgrace and we need to just stop it, just stop it. REHMAnd you're listening to "The Diane Rehm Show." I loved this book (read it in one sitting) and as Douglas Brinkley says in his foreward every young person should read this homily on civility. And I've thought more people would be united like, you know, young adults. There's a photograph of the late President John F. Kennedy sailing on his beloved Victura on the wall of U.S. Rep. John Lewis' 19th-floor office that bares this quote: "One man can make a . Their guns were absolute love and readiness to devote themselves to a better society. LEWISAt the end of that speech, he said, and we shall overcome. You know, I talk about being in one house, one family and I still believe that. REHMJohn Lewis, he is United States Congressman from Georgia's Fifth District. I fear for the future of our country. He learned what his people were going through. 2023 Copyright Good Book Summaries [Daily Updated], link to Employee to Entrepreneur by Steve Glaveski [Book Summary - Review], link to Noise by Joseph McCormack [Book Summary - Review]. Tip O'Neill was the outgoing speaker, and it was a different climate, a different environment that people did meet. With love, they allowed Black people to see that they are not lower in status. Individuals fall in love and get married. And coming as it does from a civil rights hero like John Lewis, this is important information for our own time. I wanted to have something to eat, something to read. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). He lived in Alabamas cotton fields where racism was how people live. So radical was Highlander's thought, it was placed under FBI surveillance. However, he had the faith that made him continue to believe his convictions. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. He was arrested more than 40 times, physically attacked and jailed in the fight for desegregation. And it was passed. LEWISI don't think the black caucus issued any statement concerning the Treyvon Martin shooting. It was this little community in southwest Georgia right outside of Americus, Georgia in Sumter County near where President Carter grew up. LEWISWell, you're right. He called to say sorry. He also argues strongly against war as counterproductive in a way that seemed naive and simplistic. Lewis himself lived with a broken cranium that opened scars throughout his life. A helpful and/or enlightening book that combines two or more noteworthy strengths, e.g. In regards to us having an African American president and the congressional black caucus, I was hoping that the president and that caucus would seize the opportunity to engage with African countries in trade agreements and mineral (word?) So we are being devastated to the point where voting will not make any difference, rights will not make any difference if we don't have life. They were hit, disparaged with words, and imprisoned. And you have to use that vote. Hi, Congressman. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. His bounty is an example of how actions can be used to show your truth is respectable. This right was not readily available for John Lewis. 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