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[footsteps]
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[soft indistinct chatter]
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I feel lucky and blessed
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that I'm serving
in the Congress...
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But there are forces today
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trying to take us back
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to another time
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and another dark period.
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We've come so far,
we've made so much progress,
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but as a nation
and as a people,
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we're not quite there yet.
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We have miles to go.
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♪ [Malverde's "Marcha"] ♪
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We do not want
our freedom gradually,
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but we want to be free now.
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♪ Marcha, marcha ♪
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We're marching today
to dramatize to the world
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hundreds and thousands
of Negro citizens
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denied the right to vote.
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For too long, other people
been deciding for us.
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We must have some control
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over our own
political destiny.
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No police department
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will keep us from marching
up and down the streets
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of the city of Atlanta.
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♪ Marcha ♪
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Too many people struggled,
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suffered, and died
to make it possible
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for every American to exercise
their right to vote.
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John Lewis:
I have on my marching shoes.
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- Man: That's right!
- I'm fired up!
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- Man: Fired up!
- I'm ready to march!
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Man: Let's do it!
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♪ Marcha ♪
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Lewis: Speak up, speak out,
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and get in what I call
good trouble,
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necessary trouble.
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Do what is right.
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♪ Marcha ♪
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♪ Marcha ♪
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[car horn beeps]
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[indistinct chatter]
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Elijah Cummings:
When I was a young boy,
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I remember Dr. King,
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and I remember this young guy
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who was marching with him,
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and it was this guy that
didn't look much older than me.
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I said,
"How did he get involved?"
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Happy New Year to you,
brother.
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- Congratulations.
- How you doing?
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[muffled speech]
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Anthony Johnson:
He was always different
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than every member of Congress.
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Everybody in Congress
knew what he had done.
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He was John Lewis.
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- How you doing?
- It's good to see you.
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- Good to see you.
- Good to see you.
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- Good to see you, sir.
- How you doing, sir?
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- Hey, there, how are you?
- Very good.
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Hillary Clinton:
His voice and his example
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are probably needed now
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as much as they've ever been
since he was a young man.
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[indistinct chatter]
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When I first came here,
I ran across the road.
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[chuckles]
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Now we're a little older
and a little wiser.
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A little older and wiser.
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We don't need to run
for everything.
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Ayanna Pressley: We are still
in the Civil Rights Movement
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because we are still
in a civil rights struggle,
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and so Congressman Lewis
gave us the blueprint,
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and the blueprint
is to organize,
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it is to mobilize,
and it is to legislate.
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Cummings: And the reason why
he's effective as a leader
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is because he's lived it.
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[poignant music]
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Lewis:
For many, many years
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in Dallas County,
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Selma, Alabama,
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black men and women
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had tried
to become registered voters.
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People stood
in a unmovable line.
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They would fail the so-called literacy tests.
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On one occasion,
a person was asked
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to count the number of bubbles
in a bar of soap.
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And we must make it clear
that we know
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when we are denied
the right to vote.
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Martin Luther King Jr.:
Today represents
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a marvelous determination
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of this drive
to register Negro voters
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in massive numbers
in the state of Alabama.
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You got 85 here... there's more.
86?
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That's mighty good, mighty good.
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You did not follow my orders.
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You disobeyed the parade order.
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Each and everyone in this line
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is under arrest for parading
without a permit.
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King: We will continue,
definitely,
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to get large numbers
of people registered
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and to point out the injustices
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which we continue to face
as we seek to register.
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[crowd clamoring]
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Lewis: People had been beaten,
arrested, and jailed.
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A young man by the name
of Jimmie Lee Jackson
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had been murdered.
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We made a decision to march
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in an orderly, peaceful,
nonviolent fashion
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from Selma to Montgomery.
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Lewis: We're marching today
to dramatize to the nation
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and dramatize to the world
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that hundreds and thousands
of Negro citizens of Alabama,
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but particularly here
in the Black Belt area,
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denied the right to vote,
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and we intend to march
to Montgomery
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to present said grievance to Governor George C. Wallace.
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Lewis:
As we approached a bridge,
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we saw a sea of blue,
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Alabama state troopers.
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[militaristic music]
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Man: [on speaker] It'll be
detrimental to your safety
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to continue this march,
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and I'm saying that this
is an unlawful assembly.
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You are ordered to disperse.
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Go home, or go to your church.
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This march will not continue.
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[dramatic music]
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We said,
"Major, may I have a word?"
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He said there would be no word.
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Man: Troopers here,
advance toward the group.
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See that they turn around
and disperse.
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[music continues]
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[people screaming]
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[screaming continues]
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Lewis: I was hit in the head.
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My knees went from under me.
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I thought I was going to die
on the bridge.
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[somber music]
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Female anchor 1: Amid
record-breaking early voting
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this midterm season,
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concerns of voter suppression
are at the center
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of some of the country's
most contested races.
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Male anchor: Things like
strict voter ID laws,
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getting rid
of same-day registration,
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cutting back on early voting, purging the voting rolls,
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eliminating the number
of polling places.
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Female anchor 2:
When we begin to look
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at these voter
suppression laws,
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overwhelmingly
African-American, Latino,
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Asian-American,
young, and poor,
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that's the group
that is targeted.
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[dog barking in distance]
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[paper rustling]
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Well, it's a very difficult time
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that we're going through
in America.
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My greatest fear is
that one day we may wake up
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and our democracy is gone.
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We cannot afford
to let that happen.
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As long as I have breath
in my body,
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I will do what I can.
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[people cheering]
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[cheering continues]
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- Can I touch him?
- Yes, yes.
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- Congressman, this...
- Can I touch him?
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Yes, yes, you can touch me.
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Oh, please,
someone take my picture.
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Lewis: How are you doing?
Good to see you today.
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My name is Wanda [indistinct].
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You are... you are one
of my biggest,
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biggest, biggest heroes.
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- Oh, thank you.
- You have done so much.
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- Well, I just try to help out.
- Well, we need you now.
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- Yes, ma'am.
- We need you now.
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Woman: Thank you, Mr. Lewis,
for everything.
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Lewis: Thank you.
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- Wonderful.
- Thank you. Great to see you.
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Hi, Congressman.
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Hi, handsome.
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Colin Allred: I became
a voting rights attorney
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because of John Lewis.
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- Woman 1: Yeah.
- Woman 2: Yes.
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He walked across a bridge
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so that someday
I could run for office.
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- Woman 1: Yeah.
- Woman 2: Yes.
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This man was beaten,
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was bloodied,
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so people in this country
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would have the right to vote.
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We've got to make sure
that we honor the sacrifice
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of everyone who
has preceded us here.
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[cheers and applause]
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Those civil rights marchers...
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[cheers and applause]
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Willing to risk their lives,
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and could we be
any more blessed
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than to have John Lewis here
with us,
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in Dallas, Texas?
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[cheers and applause]
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I would see those signs
that said white men,
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colored men, white women,
colored women,
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white waiting, colored waiting,
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and I would ask my mother,
my father,
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my grandparents,
and my great-grandparents why.
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They would say,
"Boy, that's the way it is.
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Don't get in the way.
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Don't get in trouble."
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But in 1955, 15 years old,
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the action of Rosa Parks,
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the words and leadership
of Dr. King,
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inspired me to get in trouble,
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what I call good trouble,
necessary trouble.
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[cheers and applause]
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It's... it's time for all
good people in this state,
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here in Dallas,
to get in trouble.
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[cheers and applause]
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You know, I got arrested
a few times during the '60s.
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[laughter, cheers]
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Forty times.
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- Woman 1: Oh.
- Woman 2: Oh.
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- Woman 3: Yeah!
- Woman 4: Whoo!
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And since I've been in Congress,
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another five times.
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[cheers and applause]
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And I'm probably gonna get
arrested again for something.
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[laughter, cheers]
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But my philosophy
is very simple.
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When you see something
that is not right,
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not fair,
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not just, say something!
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Do something!
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Get in trouble, good trouble,
necessary trouble.
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[cheers and applause]
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We have to save our country,
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save our democracy.
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I wish you well.
Thank you very much.
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[cheers and applause]
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Thank you for everything
you do for our country.
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- We love you. We love you.
- Thank you. Thank you.
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[brassy music]
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You're such a model for us.
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Oh, my God.
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Keep moving forward,
please, sir.
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Keep moving forward, please.
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Woman: Thank you.
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Man: Thank you for giving us
the right to vote.
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[people cheering]
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Lewis: We must go to the polls
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and vote like we never,
ever voted before.
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[cheers and applause]
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How you been, my dear?
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Lizzie Fletcher,
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we need her now
more than ever before.
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See that this young man
is elected
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to the House
of Representatives.
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[cheers and applause]
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Thank you.
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Lewis: It is in our hand
to make Stacey Abrams
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the next governor
of the state of Georgia.
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[cheers and applause]
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Go to the polls.
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Let's do it.
Let's do it. Let's vote.
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Run to the polls. Let's vote.
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I grew up in rural Alabama,
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outside of a little place
called Troy.
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My father was a sharecropper,
a tenant farmer,
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but in 1944,
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when I was four years old,
my father had saved $300,
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and a man sold him
110 acres of land.
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We still own this land today.
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[cheers and applause]
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We used to raise
a lot of chickens
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where I grew up on this farm.
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I wanted to preach so much
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that we would gather
all of our chickens
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together in the chicken yard,
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and my brothers and sisters
and cousins
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would line up outside
of the chicken yard,
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and I would start preaching
to those chickens.
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[laughter]
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They would bow their heads.
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They would shake their heads.
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They never quite said amen,
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but they tended
to listen to me much better
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than some of my colleagues
on the other side
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listen to me today
in the Congress.
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[cheers and applause]
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Sometimes I'd be out there
working in the field,
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picking cotton.
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My mother would say,
"Boy, you need to catch up,"
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and I would say,
"This is hard work,"
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and she would say, "Hard work
never killed anybody."
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I said, "Well,
it's about to kill me."
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[laughter]
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And I was determined
as a little child
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to get out of that field,
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out of the hot sun.
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Woman: Yes!
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- I can identify with you.
- Yes.
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- Picking cotton.
- Yes.
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- I was born in '49.
- Really?
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Where did you grow up?
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I grew up here in Fulshear
picking cotton.
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Okay. Okay.
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But I had the experience.
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I know what
you talking about.
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We would pick on our own place,
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- then go someplace else.
- Yup.
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But we would get up
early in the morning
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while the dew was still on it,
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so it would be heavy,
would weigh more.
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- Exactly, exactly.
- Right, right.
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And I hate picking up cotton.
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Yeah, I did... I did too.
I hated it.
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But thank God I was the baby.
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- I didn't...
- She didn't do it.
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No. Oh?
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But she rode... she rode
on the back of my sack.
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- [laughter]
- Exactly.
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So, you just pulled her
through the field.
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- Yes, you right, you right.
- God bless you.
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God bless you.
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Those three ladies are sisters.
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Oh, wow.
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And they picked cotton.
The youngest one didn't.
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The older one said she rode
on the back of her sack.
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They had these long sacks,
and she was a little baby.
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She pulled her
through the cotton field.
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- [laughing]
- Where they from?
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- They're from Texas.
- Oh, Texas.
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- Uh- huh.
- They pick cotton in Texas?
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- They have cotton in Texas.
- Oh.
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Texas produced a lot of cotton.
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- Well, I didn't know.
- Well, I know.
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He's from Boston.
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He wouldn't know.
He doesn't understand.
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- Exactly, he wouldn't know.
- I'm from Boston.
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He wouldn't know anything.
337
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He probably wouldn't recognize
a boll of cotton.
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- [laughter]
- A what?
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You wouldn't recognize
a boll of cotton.
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No.
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Michael Collins: I've worked for him 20 years.
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He's been a father,
a grandfather.
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There was a moment
where I lost both of my parents
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during the time
working for the Congressman,
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and um...
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it was a signing
of the Voting Rights Act,
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a reauthorization,
348
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and it happened on the same day
as my father's funeral.
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And... Congressman Lewis
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was at my father's funeral.
351
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[upbeat music]
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[choir vocalizing]
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Watch your step right here.
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Lewis: My father
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and mother,
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my oldest brother.
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This is my mother's mother.
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- Henry Lewis: And father.
- And... and father.
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Right.
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You going to see the girls.
361
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So, the horse and the cow
is good friends, huh?
362
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Yup.
363
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Lewis: How many cows in there?
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I think about 14.
365
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- Oh, my lord.
- Mm-hmm.
366
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[rooster crows]
367
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If I say, "Chick, chick,"
they will come.
368
00:18:41,859 --> 00:18:42,773
Rosa Lewis-Tyner:
They might.
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Hi, girls.
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[chickens clucking]
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Come, chick. Come.
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Come on.
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Chick, chick, chick.
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Come on, biddy, biddy.
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- They're beautiful hens.
- Rosa: Mm-hmm.
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See, when I was growing up,
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they would let me pet them
and do everything.
378
00:19:00,051 --> 00:19:01,096
See?
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Come here, chick, chick.
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Samuel Lewis: John was always... I guess I would say different,
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because he was always
determined to be good,
382
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try to do something good.
383
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♪ Said O Lord, sure is tired ♪
384
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♪ Gotta work so hard ♪
385
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♪ Never satisfied, y'all ♪
386
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♪ Sunrise till sun goes down ♪
387
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Samuel: I remember back when we had to break the land
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before we plant the cotton.
389
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We would enroll in school
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that first day,
391
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and it might be three weeks
before we'd go back to school
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'cause we gotta get
the ground ready.
393
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♪ And die here
in these rows, y'all ♪
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♪ O Lord, pick a bale a day ♪
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♪ Gonna leave this here
if I have my say ♪
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Rosa: It was back-bending.
Let me put it that way.
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Everybody knew
John wasn't gonna work.
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Lewis: My oldest brother,
Adolph, would tell Mama,
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"I'll do his share."
400
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Rosa: So, if he went on
to school,
401
00:20:09,904 --> 00:20:13,124
Adolph was gonna work
for two or three men anyway,
402
00:20:13,299 --> 00:20:16,215
so he told Dad,
"Let him go. Let him go."
403
00:20:16,780 --> 00:20:19,435
Ethel Lewis-Tyner:
He was always preaching,
404
00:20:19,609 --> 00:20:21,002
not only to the chickens.
405
00:20:21,176 --> 00:20:22,656
He would preach to us.
406
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,572
In high school,
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he wore a tie,
408
00:20:28,531 --> 00:20:29,619
dressed up.
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00:20:30,141 --> 00:20:31,186
And carried his Bible.
410
00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,362
And carried his Bible,
uh-huh.
411
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- To school every day.
- Mm-hmm.
412
00:20:39,020 --> 00:20:41,065
Lewis: I wanted
to get an education,
413
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and some days I would get up
early in the morning
414
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and get dressed for school,
415
00:20:48,725 --> 00:20:50,161
get my book bag,
416
00:20:50,771 --> 00:20:53,556
and I would hide
under the front porch
417
00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:58,213
and wait for the school bus
to come up the hill.
418
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:04,263
And the moment
the bus came up the hill,
419
00:21:05,525 --> 00:21:06,700
I would run out
420
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and get on that bus
421
00:21:10,138 --> 00:21:11,835
and slip off to school.
422
00:21:12,358 --> 00:21:13,837
I had wonderful teachers,
423
00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:15,839
wonderful teachers.
424
00:21:16,449 --> 00:21:18,886
One teacher would tell me
over and over again,
425
00:21:19,103 --> 00:21:20,627
"Read, my child, read."
426
00:21:21,845 --> 00:21:23,673
And I tried to read everything.
427
00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:27,068
Henry: You know,
I could tell that he felt
428
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that the world was bigger
429
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than what we were doing.
430
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He had...
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bigger things in mind.
432
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[melancholy music]
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Lewis: You know, I wrote
Dr. King a letter
434
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when I was 17 years old.
435
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I wanted to attend
Troy University.
436
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,350
Submitted my application,
my high school transcript.
437
00:21:48,524 --> 00:21:49,960
I never heard a word
from the school,
438
00:21:50,134 --> 00:21:52,049
so I wrote a letter
to Dr. King.
439
00:21:52,267 --> 00:21:54,356
I didn't tell my mother
or my father.
440
00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:56,315
I told one of my teachers.
441
00:21:57,316 --> 00:21:59,535
Dr. King wrote me back
442
00:21:59,709 --> 00:22:02,103
and sent me a round-trip
Greyhound bus ticket
443
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and invited me
to come to Montgomery.
444
00:22:05,062 --> 00:22:06,716
And I saw
Martin Luther King, Jr.
445
00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:09,415
and Ralph Abernathy
standing behind a desk.
446
00:22:09,676 --> 00:22:11,286
I was so scared.
447
00:22:11,460 --> 00:22:14,681
My heart started beating
so fast, and Dr. King said,
448
00:22:15,159 --> 00:22:16,683
- "Are you the boy from Troy?"
- [woman laughs]
449
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"Are you John Lewis?"
450
00:22:18,989 --> 00:22:21,862
and I said, "Dr. King,
I am John Robert Lewis."
451
00:22:22,036 --> 00:22:24,343
I gave my whole name,
but he still called me
452
00:22:24,517 --> 00:22:26,736
"the boy from Troy"
each time he would see me.
453
00:22:26,910 --> 00:22:27,998
- Woman: Wow.
- He would say,
454
00:22:28,172 --> 00:22:29,348
"How's the boy
from Troy doing?"
455
00:22:33,917 --> 00:22:36,355
Lewis:
We thought about suing
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the university system
of Alabama.
457
00:22:39,923 --> 00:22:41,664
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
458
00:22:41,838 --> 00:22:44,363
and his organization
were prepared to support it.
459
00:22:44,885 --> 00:22:47,670
I had a discussion
with my mother and my father.
460
00:22:48,845 --> 00:22:51,979
My father was very,
very supportive of the idea.
461
00:22:54,242 --> 00:22:55,722
My mother was so afraid
462
00:22:57,376 --> 00:22:59,116
that we could lose the land,
463
00:23:01,031 --> 00:23:02,903
our home could
be bombed or burned,
464
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so I continued to study
in Nashville.
465
00:23:09,562 --> 00:23:11,390
It was there in Nashville
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00:23:12,129 --> 00:23:13,696
that I met Jim Lawson
467
00:23:15,263 --> 00:23:18,353
and got involved
in studying the philosophy
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00:23:18,527 --> 00:23:20,442
and the discipline
of nonviolence.
469
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[choir vocalizing]
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Lewis: I started attending
these nonviolent workshops.
471
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Bernard Lafayette
was my roommate,
472
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and I kept saying to Bernard, "You have to come.
473
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You have to get involved."
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Bernard Lafayette, Jr: I was so busy with my courses.
475
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I said, "Listen,
I don't have time for that."
476
00:23:44,597 --> 00:23:47,338
But he kept badgering me,
477
00:23:47,513 --> 00:23:48,992
and lo and behold,
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I got hooked.
479
00:23:51,821 --> 00:23:55,999
Lewis: Jim Lawson taught us
to never engage in violence,
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but we had a right to protest for what was right.
481
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It inspired me.
It changed my life.
482
00:24:05,531 --> 00:24:07,794
Nonviolence as conceived by...
483
00:24:08,882 --> 00:24:10,753
the Montgomery bus boycott
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is not a self-defense
position.
485
00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:16,759
It is a militant position.
486
00:24:17,673 --> 00:24:20,459
How is it that I can transform
487
00:24:20,633 --> 00:24:22,635
the environment
in which I live?
488
00:24:23,331 --> 00:24:25,202
The Montgomery bus boycott
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did a radical analysis
of the racism
490
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as a tool of helping people
to wake up.
491
00:24:31,644 --> 00:24:33,254
King:
When you sit down on the bus
492
00:24:33,428 --> 00:24:34,821
and you sit down in the front
493
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or you sit down
by a white person,
494
00:24:36,997 --> 00:24:38,346
you have a duty to sit there
495
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,479
because as long as you
sit in the back,
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00:24:40,653 --> 00:24:43,046
you have a false sense
of inferiority,
497
00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:45,440
and so long as you let
the white man sit in the front
498
00:24:45,614 --> 00:24:47,094
and push you back there,
499
00:24:47,268 --> 00:24:49,923
he has a false sense
of superiority.
500
00:24:50,097 --> 00:24:52,186
[crowd murmuring agreement]
501
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,231
James M. Lawson, Jr.:
We had robust discussion
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about these ideas.
503
00:24:56,669 --> 00:24:58,235
Six months of gatherings
504
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produced the consensus
505
00:25:00,368 --> 00:25:03,589
we're going to desegregate
downtown Nashville.
506
00:25:03,806 --> 00:25:06,940
I hated the system
telling people
507
00:25:07,201 --> 00:25:09,856
that you cannot be seated
at a lunch counter,
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00:25:11,248 --> 00:25:13,990
you cannot go
into a restaurant
509
00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:16,689
simply because
of the color of your skin,
510
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and I wanted to be part
of an effort
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to help change it,
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00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:22,869
and I was prepared
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to put my body on the line.
514
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There was something
deep down within me,
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moving me,
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00:25:29,963 --> 00:25:31,791
that I could no longer
be satisfied
517
00:25:31,965 --> 00:25:34,141
or go along
with an evil system.
518
00:25:35,969 --> 00:25:37,753
Lafeyette: Look at this letter
I got from my mother.
519
00:25:38,145 --> 00:25:39,625
"What are you fighting for?
520
00:25:39,929 --> 00:25:42,497
Remember who are
helping you in school.
521
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:44,847
It is the white people.
522
00:25:45,065 --> 00:25:47,067
What about the people
of your race?
523
00:25:47,241 --> 00:25:48,982
What are they giving you?"
524
00:25:49,156 --> 00:25:51,637
I mean, I know she...
she cares for me, you know?
525
00:25:51,811 --> 00:25:53,813
I mean, I know she loves me,
but...
526
00:25:56,293 --> 00:25:57,860
I mean,
she just don't understand.
527
00:25:58,034 --> 00:25:59,340
My mom...
You could hear my mother
528
00:25:59,514 --> 00:26:00,733
while she washing dishes.
529
00:26:00,907 --> 00:26:02,996
She's praying,
praying out loud.
530
00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:05,825
Well, the whole time he was
in the movement, you know,
531
00:26:05,999 --> 00:26:08,741
it was...
it was frightening,
532
00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:10,090
especially for...
533
00:26:10,699 --> 00:26:12,396
you know,
a younger brother that's...
534
00:26:13,484 --> 00:26:16,096
you know, 12 years younger,
and knowing the danger
535
00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:17,532
and...
536
00:26:18,620 --> 00:26:21,231
knowing what could happen
at any time.
537
00:26:22,668 --> 00:26:25,801
Now, tonight we have
a most important business
538
00:26:25,975 --> 00:26:27,237
to try to accomplish,
539
00:26:28,151 --> 00:26:29,936
and that is to try to have
540
00:26:30,110 --> 00:26:33,113
one major role-playing
experience
541
00:26:33,287 --> 00:26:34,505
to set the stage
542
00:26:35,289 --> 00:26:36,682
for an actual demonstration,
543
00:26:36,856 --> 00:26:38,205
for an actual sit-in.
544
00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:40,555
A bunch of niggers.
545
00:26:40,773 --> 00:26:42,644
Well, look
at the eight-balls
546
00:26:42,818 --> 00:26:47,040
all lined up with a white ball
in the side pocket.
547
00:26:47,214 --> 00:26:48,302
Man: Hey, nigger lover,
548
00:26:48,476 --> 00:26:50,043
what are you doing here?
549
00:26:50,217 --> 00:26:51,653
Why don't you go around
in the alley where you belong?
550
00:26:51,827 --> 00:26:53,002
I've got some licorice
candy here.
551
00:26:53,176 --> 00:26:54,395
You like to have
some of that?
552
00:26:54,569 --> 00:26:56,179
Let's get these niggers
out of here.
553
00:26:56,353 --> 00:26:59,226
[people shouting]
554
00:27:02,098 --> 00:27:03,056
Okay.
555
00:27:03,230 --> 00:27:04,753
[laughter]
556
00:27:04,927 --> 00:27:06,146
That was pretty good.
557
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,538
How about that?
558
00:27:08,583 --> 00:27:09,584
Thank you.
559
00:27:09,758 --> 00:27:11,804
[scattered laughter]
560
00:27:12,108 --> 00:27:14,197
So, what questions
does this raise to us
561
00:27:14,371 --> 00:27:17,984
as to how we might
act nonviolently?
562
00:27:18,158 --> 00:27:19,986
What are
the basic problems here
563
00:27:20,203 --> 00:27:22,423
so far as this whole idea
that we're working on?
564
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:26,296
What is it
that I be would able to do
565
00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:30,561
in the framework of passive
resistance to protect myself?
566
00:27:30,736 --> 00:27:33,434
As creatively as possible,
seek to be loving
567
00:27:33,608 --> 00:27:35,479
and forgiving in any situation.
568
00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:39,048
It may have much more meaning
to the attacker if,
569
00:27:39,527 --> 00:27:42,617
as he strikes you on the cheek,
you're looking him in the eyes.
570
00:27:48,449 --> 00:27:51,365
[rustling]
571
00:27:56,631 --> 00:27:59,678
Dawn, I'm seeing footage
I've never seen before.
572
00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:12,473
Man:
We organized in Nashville
573
00:28:12,647 --> 00:28:15,432
with John Lewis, Diane Nash,
and the others.
574
00:28:19,567 --> 00:28:22,222
Lewis: It was
on February the 13th, and...
575
00:28:22,657 --> 00:28:25,442
we had the very first
sit-in here in Nashville,
576
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,968
and I took my seat
at the counter.
577
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,928
I asked a waitress
for a hamburger and a Coke.
578
00:28:33,102 --> 00:28:34,887
I said, "I'm sorry,
our management
579
00:28:35,061 --> 00:28:37,150
does not allow us
to serve niggers in here."
580
00:28:38,629 --> 00:28:41,981
Lewis: Altogether, it was
a moving feeling within me
581
00:28:42,590 --> 00:28:46,942
that I was sitting there
demanding a God-given right,
582
00:28:47,377 --> 00:28:48,901
and in spite of all of this,
583
00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:53,470
I had to keep loving the people
who denied me service.
584
00:28:53,644 --> 00:28:55,646
They come in,
and they sit down,
585
00:28:55,821 --> 00:28:57,779
and we're not used to them
sitting down beside us
586
00:28:57,953 --> 00:28:59,781
'cause I wasn't raised
with 'em,
587
00:28:59,955 --> 00:29:02,262
I never have lived with 'em,
and I'm not gonna start now.
588
00:29:05,265 --> 00:29:07,702
Lafayette: First,
we had to change,
589
00:29:08,703 --> 00:29:12,838
and since we were no longer
going to accept
590
00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:15,710
segregated lunch counters,
591
00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:18,191
it was over with.
592
00:29:19,670 --> 00:29:22,804
We protested
because we had changed.
593
00:29:22,978 --> 00:29:24,806
[crowd clamoring]
594
00:29:24,980 --> 00:29:30,159
We continued to give them the opportunity to also change
595
00:29:30,638 --> 00:29:32,553
'cause we believed
that it was possible.
596
00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:49,613
News anchor: On February 27th,
597
00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:53,008
80 Nashville students were arrested out of over 300
598
00:29:53,226 --> 00:29:55,489
who were participating
in the sit-ins that day.
599
00:29:55,663 --> 00:29:57,360
As the students were
confronted with the choice
600
00:29:57,534 --> 00:29:59,101
of paying a $50 fine
601
00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:01,234
or spending over
a month in jail,
602
00:30:01,408 --> 00:30:02,888
each of them chose jail.
603
00:30:03,845 --> 00:30:05,412
Their attitude reflected
604
00:30:05,586 --> 00:30:07,588
the words of Reverend
Martin Luther King,
605
00:30:08,067 --> 00:30:10,417
"We will meet the capacity
to inflict suffering
606
00:30:10,983 --> 00:30:12,985
with the capacity
to endure suffering.
607
00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:15,552
Do what you will to us,
608
00:30:15,988 --> 00:30:17,903
but we will wear you down."
609
00:30:19,426 --> 00:30:20,557
Diane Nash: We felt unity.
610
00:30:20,731 --> 00:30:22,255
We felt power.
611
00:30:22,603 --> 00:30:23,822
We felt strength.
612
00:30:24,126 --> 00:30:26,172
I don't think any of us
will ever forget it.
613
00:30:26,781 --> 00:30:28,652
News anchor: Nashville became
the first major city
614
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:31,220
in the South
to permit whites and Negros
615
00:30:31,394 --> 00:30:33,353
to eat together
in public places.
616
00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:36,356
Lewis: You come to that point,
617
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,750
this feeling that if you
don't do it, if you don't...
618
00:30:39,968 --> 00:30:42,275
do everything
you can to change things,
619
00:30:43,363 --> 00:30:44,755
they will remain the same,
620
00:30:46,801 --> 00:30:48,672
and you only pass
this way once,
621
00:30:49,325 --> 00:30:51,153
and you have to give it
all you have.
622
00:30:53,677 --> 00:30:56,593
The radicalism
of the Civil Rights Movement,
623
00:30:56,767 --> 00:30:59,118
the social radicalism,
624
00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:01,120
the civic radicalism,
625
00:31:01,381 --> 00:31:04,601
all of that inspires
a lot of the conclusions
626
00:31:04,775 --> 00:31:06,429
and the beliefs
that I have today,
627
00:31:06,603 --> 00:31:11,043
and I know that if John Lewis
as a 19, 20-year-old,
628
00:31:11,217 --> 00:31:13,828
wasn't doing what he did,
I would not be here today.
629
00:31:14,089 --> 00:31:16,875
[militaristic music]
630
00:31:17,049 --> 00:31:18,354
Female reporter 1:
Growing allegations
631
00:31:18,528 --> 00:31:20,139
of voter suppression
are emerging
632
00:31:20,313 --> 00:31:22,445
in the hard-fought race for governor in Georgia.
633
00:31:22,663 --> 00:31:24,317
Female reporter 2:
Republican candidate
634
00:31:24,491 --> 00:31:26,841
and current Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp
635
00:31:27,015 --> 00:31:30,889
is accused of blocking about
53,000 voter applications,
636
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:32,847
most of which
are from minorities.
637
00:31:33,108 --> 00:31:34,544
Female reporter 3: Democrats say
638
00:31:34,718 --> 00:31:36,329
he has dropped
more than a million voters
639
00:31:36,503 --> 00:31:38,244
from the rolls
since 2012,
640
00:31:38,548 --> 00:31:41,812
shuttered polling places in African-American communities.
641
00:31:42,074 --> 00:31:44,380
Male reporter: Up until now, they only had three machines,
642
00:31:44,554 --> 00:31:45,816
and that forced
some folks here
643
00:31:45,991 --> 00:31:47,949
to wait in line for hours.
644
00:31:48,123 --> 00:31:49,908
Female reporter 4:
Those votes could be crucial
645
00:31:50,082 --> 00:31:52,258
for Democratic candidate
Stacey Abrams,
646
00:31:52,432 --> 00:31:54,825
who's looking to be the first female black governor
647
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,262
in U.S. history.
648
00:31:57,045 --> 00:31:58,873
There are forces
in America today
649
00:31:59,047 --> 00:32:01,920
want to take us back,
but we're not going back.
650
00:32:02,094 --> 00:32:04,574
We've come too far.
We are going forward!
651
00:32:04,748 --> 00:32:06,750
[cheers and applause]
652
00:32:07,012 --> 00:32:08,578
These are our votes,
653
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:10,232
this is our choice,
654
00:32:10,624 --> 00:32:12,713
and everyone who is legally
eligible to vote
655
00:32:12,887 --> 00:32:14,454
in the state of Georgia
656
00:32:14,628 --> 00:32:15,934
should take advantage
of that opportunity.
657
00:32:16,369 --> 00:32:18,937
Go to the polls on Tuesday
and cast your ballot,
658
00:32:19,111 --> 00:32:21,417
because your voice matters;
if it didn't matter,
659
00:32:21,591 --> 00:32:23,071
they wouldn't be trying
to shut you up.
660
00:32:23,245 --> 00:32:25,117
- Woman 1: Yup.
- Woman 2: Yeah.
661
00:32:25,291 --> 00:32:26,596
Woman 3: That's right,
that's right.
662
00:32:28,772 --> 00:32:32,907
We're going to meet
rabid voter suppression
663
00:32:33,168 --> 00:32:36,389
with massive
voter mobilization.
664
00:32:36,563 --> 00:32:39,827
[cheers and applause]
665
00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:41,785
The three civil rights workers
666
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,179
that were murdered
in Mississippi
667
00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:46,486
for trying to help people
get registered to vote
668
00:32:46,660 --> 00:32:48,096
are looking down on us.
669
00:32:48,270 --> 00:32:51,099
[cheers and applause]
670
00:32:58,106 --> 00:33:00,413
One of the great moments
in my life
671
00:33:00,587 --> 00:33:05,287
was sharing with John Lewis
the voter registration card
672
00:33:05,679 --> 00:33:10,553
of his great-great-grandfather
from the summer of 1867.
673
00:33:10,727 --> 00:33:15,080
"As soon as he was freed,
as soon as the law allowed
674
00:33:15,254 --> 00:33:16,690
because of
the Reconstruction Act,
675
00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:20,085
your great-great-grandfather
defied the odds
676
00:33:20,259 --> 00:33:24,567
and went down to the courthouse
to register to vote,"
677
00:33:25,177 --> 00:33:26,178
and I said,
678
00:33:26,961 --> 00:33:28,658
"And by my calculation,
679
00:33:29,050 --> 00:33:31,879
no one in your family
between him,
680
00:33:32,227 --> 00:33:34,403
your great-great-grandfather,
and you,
681
00:33:35,187 --> 00:33:36,666
because of what
you did at Pettus Bridge
682
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:38,233
and the Voting Rights Act,
683
00:33:38,407 --> 00:33:42,063
no one in your family line
voted
684
00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:44,109
between him and you,"
685
00:33:45,284 --> 00:33:46,633
and he looked at me,
686
00:33:47,982 --> 00:33:49,375
and Dawn, his head...
687
00:33:50,202 --> 00:33:52,465
hit the scrapbook.
688
00:33:54,293 --> 00:33:56,034
He just cried
689
00:33:56,469 --> 00:33:58,819
and cried and cried,
690
00:33:58,993 --> 00:34:00,386
and then he looked up and said,
691
00:34:00,821 --> 00:34:02,344
"I guess it's in my DNA."
692
00:34:09,221 --> 00:34:11,658
Good morning. Good morning.
How you doing?
693
00:34:11,832 --> 00:34:12,746
Woman: Good morning.
694
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:13,964
Good to see you.
695
00:34:14,139 --> 00:34:14,965
- Nice to see you.
- Ay!
696
00:34:15,140 --> 00:34:16,706
Yes. Yes.
697
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,099
- [laughter]
- Aww.
698
00:34:18,317 --> 00:34:21,146
[cheers and applause]
699
00:34:25,367 --> 00:34:27,978
[solemn music]
700
00:34:29,328 --> 00:34:30,981
Lewis: Hi.
How you doing, my dear?
701
00:34:31,156 --> 00:34:33,332
- Woman: Are you voting today?
- Lewis: I'm voting today.
702
00:34:33,506 --> 00:34:34,985
Put your date of birth
on that line.
703
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,378
Lewis: Okay.
704
00:34:38,293 --> 00:34:39,990
It's a good sign,
all these folks here.
705
00:34:40,165 --> 00:34:41,209
Man: Mm-hmm.
706
00:34:41,383 --> 00:34:42,732
You are all set to vote.
707
00:34:42,906 --> 00:34:43,951
Lewis: Thank you.
708
00:34:46,954 --> 00:34:49,696
I'm happy to see
so many people participating,
709
00:34:49,957 --> 00:34:52,046
and I truly believe
we gonna take back
710
00:34:52,220 --> 00:34:53,874
the House of Representatives.
711
00:34:54,048 --> 00:34:55,702
Woman: Are you concerned
about voter suppression?
712
00:34:55,876 --> 00:34:57,182
Well, I am concerned,
713
00:34:57,356 --> 00:34:59,184
because there's been
a deliberate,
714
00:34:59,358 --> 00:35:00,663
systematic effort
715
00:35:00,881 --> 00:35:03,579
in this state
to suppress the vote.
716
00:35:04,189 --> 00:35:05,625
Male reporter:
Control of Congress
717
00:35:05,799 --> 00:35:07,366
is at stake as voters
718
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:09,194
make a critical decision
on what sort of Senate
719
00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:11,283
and House
the president will deal with
720
00:35:11,457 --> 00:35:13,285
for the second half
of his first term.
721
00:35:13,459 --> 00:35:14,808
[man on TV
speaking indistinctly]
722
00:35:14,982 --> 00:35:16,462
Male reporter:
This early in the evening,
723
00:35:16,766 --> 00:35:19,247
too early to call.
724
00:35:22,685 --> 00:35:24,122
- You good?
- Okay.
725
00:35:24,296 --> 00:35:25,514
Michael, you know
where we going?
726
00:35:25,688 --> 00:35:27,168
We're gonna make it work.
727
00:35:27,342 --> 00:35:29,214
Lewis: It's not good to go
through the kitchen.
728
00:35:30,258 --> 00:35:31,433
- Hey.
- Man: Hey.
729
00:35:31,607 --> 00:35:33,087
Fine. How you doing?
Good to see you.
730
00:35:33,261 --> 00:35:34,741
How do you like that? Boom.
731
00:35:34,915 --> 00:35:36,264
- Thank you.
- [laughing]
732
00:35:38,701 --> 00:35:41,051
And so tonight is going
to continue to be a long night.
733
00:35:41,226 --> 00:35:42,531
Yeah.
734
00:35:42,792 --> 00:35:44,142
Collins: We're basically
just keeping the crowd
735
00:35:44,316 --> 00:35:45,534
energized through the night,
that's all.
736
00:35:46,187 --> 00:35:47,667
Anything else on Texas?
737
00:35:48,407 --> 00:35:49,451
Man: Yeah.
738
00:35:50,017 --> 00:35:52,411
Seventy-six percent,
they're neck and neck.
739
00:35:53,063 --> 00:35:55,936
[cheers and applause]
740
00:35:57,633 --> 00:35:58,808
Lewis: Hello, everybody.
741
00:35:58,982 --> 00:36:01,028
[cheers and applause]
742
00:36:01,202 --> 00:36:02,899
I say to you tonight,
743
00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:06,990
the vote is still the most
powerful nonviolent instrument
744
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:09,384
or tool we have
in a democratic society,
745
00:36:09,558 --> 00:36:10,777
and we must use it.
746
00:36:10,951 --> 00:36:12,082
- Woman: Yes!
- [people cheering]
747
00:36:12,257 --> 00:36:13,432
- Are you with me?
- All: Yes!
748
00:36:13,606 --> 00:36:15,216
Are you with Stacey?
749
00:36:15,390 --> 00:36:16,913
- All: Yes!
- Let me hear you.
750
00:36:17,087 --> 00:36:18,872
All: Yes!
751
00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:20,569
Good. Thank you so much.
752
00:36:21,222 --> 00:36:22,658
I think it'll be a long evening.
753
00:36:22,832 --> 00:36:24,138
Yeah, yeah.
754
00:36:24,965 --> 00:36:28,577
Joss, do we have anything
out of Texas in the House?
755
00:36:28,751 --> 00:36:29,970
Joss: Nothing out of Texas.
756
00:36:30,144 --> 00:36:31,624
So, we picked up 15 already?
757
00:36:31,798 --> 00:36:32,973
Uh-huh.
758
00:36:33,147 --> 00:36:36,281
[indistinct chatter]
759
00:36:37,107 --> 00:36:37,978
Come on, Beto.
760
00:36:38,152 --> 00:36:39,675
Lewis: Come on, Beto.
761
00:36:39,893 --> 00:36:41,242
Come on, baby.
762
00:36:41,503 --> 00:36:44,289
Oh, God, I hope we can
get rid of this guy here.
763
00:36:44,550 --> 00:36:46,595
This is the guy... no, King.
764
00:36:46,769 --> 00:36:48,206
- Oh, King.
- King, King.
765
00:36:48,380 --> 00:36:49,903
A total racist.
766
00:36:50,077 --> 00:36:52,122
He is so bad.
767
00:36:52,340 --> 00:36:53,689
Man on TV: Just coming across the wire...
768
00:36:53,863 --> 00:36:54,734
Oh, yeah!
769
00:36:54,908 --> 00:36:56,649
Yes, Lizzie!
770
00:36:56,823 --> 00:36:57,824
Yes, Lizzie!
771
00:36:58,085 --> 00:36:59,739
Oh, this is a good win.
772
00:37:00,566 --> 00:37:01,784
Hi, Lizzie?
773
00:37:02,045 --> 00:37:03,308
Congratulations.
774
00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:08,226
I'm... I'm so proud of you.
775
00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:11,054
Man on TV 1: Senator Ted Cruz,
the incumbent Republican,
776
00:37:11,316 --> 00:37:13,753
will beat the Democrat,
Beto O'Rourke.
777
00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:15,885
Man on TV 2: Brian Kemp's
campaign declaring victory
778
00:37:16,059 --> 00:37:17,539
in Georgia's
gubernatorial race.
779
00:37:17,713 --> 00:37:19,237
Woman on TV:
But Stacey Abrams' team
780
00:37:19,411 --> 00:37:21,630
is insisting
this is not over yet.
781
00:37:22,283 --> 00:37:23,763
I'm so sorry about...
782
00:37:25,330 --> 00:37:26,461
about...
783
00:37:26,635 --> 00:37:29,769
well, Stacey
and this kid...
784
00:37:30,117 --> 00:37:31,336
this kid.
785
00:37:34,121 --> 00:37:35,253
They called it?
786
00:37:35,427 --> 00:37:36,384
That look good.
787
00:37:36,558 --> 00:37:38,168
[upbeat music]
788
00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:40,997
House Democratic control, yeah!
789
00:37:41,171 --> 00:37:44,044
[people cheering]
790
00:37:49,789 --> 00:37:51,138
[indistinct] John Lewis!
791
00:37:51,312 --> 00:37:53,053
Whoo! Here with John Lewis!
792
00:37:53,227 --> 00:37:56,099
[cheering continues]
793
00:38:04,934 --> 00:38:07,372
Oh, what'll it be like
to get majority again?
794
00:38:07,546 --> 00:38:09,287
Yes! Whoo!
795
00:38:09,461 --> 00:38:11,811
- That's the best news.
- In the majority again.
796
00:38:11,985 --> 00:38:14,683
- Whoo!
- Once again.
797
00:38:14,857 --> 00:38:16,206
Back, back, back, back.
798
00:38:16,381 --> 00:38:18,252
We can't mess it up this time.
799
00:38:21,603 --> 00:38:23,213
Male reporter 1: Americans and President Trump
800
00:38:23,388 --> 00:38:26,042
are waking up to a new reality
here in Washington.
801
00:38:26,216 --> 00:38:27,957
One party rule is over.
802
00:38:28,131 --> 00:38:29,611
Male reporter 2:
The first Muslim women,
803
00:38:29,785 --> 00:38:31,265
first Native American women,
804
00:38:31,526 --> 00:38:33,267
the first black woman
from Massachusetts,
805
00:38:33,441 --> 00:38:34,790
first Latina from Texas...
it may not be a blue wave.
806
00:38:34,964 --> 00:38:36,488
It's a rainbow wave.
807
00:38:36,662 --> 00:38:37,663
Female reporter:
Democrats picked up
808
00:38:37,837 --> 00:38:39,317
more than two dozen House seats
809
00:38:39,621 --> 00:38:41,014
to take control
810
00:38:41,188 --> 00:38:42,145
for the first time
in eight years.
811
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,756
It is a happy moment.
812
00:38:43,930 --> 00:38:45,192
I just feel grateful,
813
00:38:45,366 --> 00:38:46,628
and I'm ready to take that oath.
814
00:38:46,802 --> 00:38:48,238
- Good to see you.
- Tremendous day.
815
00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:49,849
- Good to see you.
- Good to see you, always.
816
00:38:50,023 --> 00:38:51,198
Good to see you.
You're looking good, brother.
817
00:38:51,372 --> 00:38:52,068
- Thank you, as you.
- Thank you.
818
00:38:52,242 --> 00:38:54,680
[indistinct chatter]
819
00:39:05,386 --> 00:39:07,432
It is my honor
to introduce to you all
820
00:39:07,606 --> 00:39:11,349
the history-making 55 members
821
00:39:11,653 --> 00:39:13,307
of the Congressional
Black Caucus
822
00:39:13,481 --> 00:39:16,310
of the 116th Congress.
823
00:39:16,615 --> 00:39:18,268
Under leadership
of Marcia Fudge,
824
00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:21,446
of Terri Sewell, John Lewis,
825
00:39:21,620 --> 00:39:23,752
we will be introducing
826
00:39:23,926 --> 00:39:27,060
and passing the Voting
Rights Act in this Congress.
827
00:39:27,234 --> 00:39:31,456
[cheers and applause]
828
00:39:31,630 --> 00:39:34,415
Ilhan Omar:
I remember him saying,
829
00:39:34,633 --> 00:39:37,462
"Love your country
like you love yourself,"
830
00:39:38,419 --> 00:39:40,595
and that spoke to me
831
00:39:40,769 --> 00:39:44,251
because my grandfather
always talked about the love
832
00:39:44,425 --> 00:39:48,603
that he had for this democracy
that was unlike anyone else
833
00:39:48,777 --> 00:39:51,998
because it was the kind of love
that only a person
834
00:39:52,172 --> 00:39:55,088
who experienced
the absence of it could have,
835
00:39:56,089 --> 00:39:58,265
and this was a country
836
00:39:58,439 --> 00:40:00,180
that had a hard time loving
837
00:40:00,746 --> 00:40:02,312
people like John Lewis.
838
00:40:03,313 --> 00:40:06,012
But he loved it
and was willing to,
839
00:40:06,186 --> 00:40:08,449
as he said, get a concussion
840
00:40:08,623 --> 00:40:11,147
so that the conscience
of the country was awakened.
841
00:40:12,410 --> 00:40:14,368
There are great bruises
842
00:40:15,978 --> 00:40:18,764
that we take
as catalysts for change,
843
00:40:19,591 --> 00:40:20,679
and...
844
00:40:21,636 --> 00:40:25,031
the fight we embark on
on behalf of the people
845
00:40:25,335 --> 00:40:27,381
isn't often only a fight
that is brought to us.
846
00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:29,905
It's a fight that
we willingly engage in.
847
00:40:30,123 --> 00:40:32,691
- Woman: I...
- John Lewis.
848
00:40:32,865 --> 00:40:34,127
Woman: Do solemnly swear...
849
00:40:34,301 --> 00:40:35,868
All: Do solemnly swear...
850
00:40:36,042 --> 00:40:37,913
Woman: That I will support
and defend...
851
00:40:38,087 --> 00:40:40,133
All: That I will
support and defend...
852
00:40:40,307 --> 00:40:42,875
The Constitution
of the United States...
853
00:40:43,049 --> 00:40:44,703
All: The Constitution
of the United States...
854
00:40:44,877 --> 00:40:46,705
Against all enemies...
855
00:40:46,879 --> 00:40:48,184
All: Against all enemies...
856
00:40:48,358 --> 00:40:49,795
Foreign and domestic.
857
00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:51,449
All: Foreign and domestic.
858
00:40:51,623 --> 00:40:53,320
Thank you for all
that you have done
859
00:40:53,494 --> 00:40:55,148
to lay the pathway
for 55 members.
860
00:40:55,322 --> 00:40:56,323
You need to know that.
861
00:40:56,497 --> 00:40:57,672
- Thank you.
- All right?
862
00:40:57,846 --> 00:40:59,195
- Thank you.
- That goes with Selma.
863
00:40:59,369 --> 00:41:00,936
That doesn't go
when you first got elected.
864
00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:02,547
- Thank you.
- All right.
865
00:41:03,330 --> 00:41:04,810
James E. Clyburn: John and I
866
00:41:05,071 --> 00:41:07,247
took different paths
after college.
867
00:41:07,813 --> 00:41:08,814
I got married.
868
00:41:09,205 --> 00:41:11,294
John went out,
869
00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:14,689
and they were organizing
the Freedom Rides at that time.
870
00:41:15,081 --> 00:41:17,910
He's probably the most courageous person I ever met.
871
00:41:22,654 --> 00:41:26,179
Lewis: I heard that the Congress
of Racial Equality
872
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:29,138
would be sponsoring
the Freedom Rides,
873
00:41:30,966 --> 00:41:34,579
and I applied to be accepted
as a Freedom Rider.
874
00:41:34,753 --> 00:41:36,668
[foreboding music]
875
00:41:37,059 --> 00:41:39,018
Man: Even though the law
of the land says
876
00:41:39,235 --> 00:41:41,324
that a passenger
can ride interstate
877
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:43,065
and participate in a lunchroom
878
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,937
or waiting rooms and bathrooms,
879
00:41:45,111 --> 00:41:46,242
everyone cannot,
880
00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:48,070
particularly the Negro.
881
00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:51,378
Lafeyette: Even though you had a Supreme Court decision made,
882
00:41:51,552 --> 00:41:54,337
the Freedom Rides was an effort
883
00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:56,165
to test the facilities.
884
00:41:57,123 --> 00:41:59,125
Man: Within a matter of weeks,
Freedom Riders
885
00:41:59,299 --> 00:42:00,996
are boarding buses
all over the South.
886
00:42:01,214 --> 00:42:03,651
The riders are harassed
and jailed.
887
00:42:04,086 --> 00:42:05,784
Sometimes they're beaten
by angry crowds of whites
888
00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:08,264
while Southern sheriffs
look the other way.
889
00:42:09,744 --> 00:42:11,311
Lewis: The night of May 3rd,
890
00:42:12,486 --> 00:42:15,054
we went to a Chinese restaurant
891
00:42:15,881 --> 00:42:19,188
in Downtown Washington
to get something to eat.
892
00:42:19,841 --> 00:42:21,408
Growing up in rural Alabama,
893
00:42:21,582 --> 00:42:23,584
I never had Chinese food before,
894
00:42:24,759 --> 00:42:28,067
but someone that evening said,
"You should eat well
895
00:42:28,981 --> 00:42:32,027
because this may be like
the Last Supper."
896
00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:35,117
Clyburn: They were coming
through South Carolina,
897
00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:37,119
so I said to my wife
898
00:42:37,293 --> 00:42:40,427
that I thought that I would
meet the bus in Rock Hill.
899
00:42:41,471 --> 00:42:42,777
She reminded me
900
00:42:43,125 --> 00:42:45,171
that I was no longer
a college student.
901
00:42:46,172 --> 00:42:49,523
At that time, we were
expecting our first child,
902
00:42:49,784 --> 00:42:53,048
so I did not meet the bus.
903
00:42:55,268 --> 00:42:58,532
The tall gentleman
with the suit on,
904
00:42:59,751 --> 00:43:01,361
that's Albert Bigelow.
905
00:43:02,101 --> 00:43:03,581
He was my seatmate
906
00:43:04,799 --> 00:43:06,496
from Washington, D.C.
907
00:43:07,497 --> 00:43:09,021
to Rock Hill, South Carolina.
908
00:43:11,153 --> 00:43:13,460
We arrived in Rock Hill.
909
00:43:15,070 --> 00:43:17,333
We were attacked
by members of the Klan,
910
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,422
and we were beaten
911
00:43:20,336 --> 00:43:22,251
and left
lying in a pool of blood.
912
00:43:23,862 --> 00:43:25,428
Clyburn: I often wondered
913
00:43:25,690 --> 00:43:27,996
what might have happened
if I was there,
914
00:43:28,214 --> 00:43:29,563
because I was never
915
00:43:30,608 --> 00:43:32,610
as nonviolent as John is.
916
00:43:33,262 --> 00:43:34,568
I don't think
I could have taken
917
00:43:35,308 --> 00:43:36,396
what he took.
918
00:43:38,659 --> 00:43:41,706
Lewis: I lost all sense of fear,
really.
919
00:43:43,838 --> 00:43:46,275
When you lose the sense
of fear, you're free.
920
00:43:49,061 --> 00:43:52,020
Too many people lived in fear during those days.
921
00:43:55,545 --> 00:43:59,941
We cannot continue to accept
these conditions of oppression,
922
00:44:00,115 --> 00:44:03,031
for this is not a struggle
for ourselves alone.
923
00:44:03,205 --> 00:44:05,860
It is a struggle
to save the soul of America.
924
00:44:07,079 --> 00:44:08,471
Man: The best thing for King
925
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:10,604
and all of the so-called
Freedom Riders
926
00:44:10,778 --> 00:44:12,301
is to return to their homes
927
00:44:12,475 --> 00:44:13,955
and mind their own business.
928
00:44:14,956 --> 00:44:17,829
Lewis: We decided to have
a mass meeting,
929
00:44:18,003 --> 00:44:20,222
and thousands
of people showed up.
930
00:44:21,049 --> 00:44:23,138
Now, we've had
an ugly mob outside.
931
00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:25,924
They burned some automobiles.
932
00:44:26,228 --> 00:44:27,882
Let us be calm.
933
00:44:28,100 --> 00:44:29,449
We are together.
934
00:44:30,015 --> 00:44:31,538
We are not afraid.
935
00:44:32,278 --> 00:44:34,236
Lewis: Dr. King and the Reverend
Ralph Abernathy
936
00:44:34,410 --> 00:44:36,674
went down into the basement
of the church.
937
00:44:37,196 --> 00:44:38,632
They spoke
to the attorney general,
938
00:44:38,806 --> 00:44:40,590
and he told President Kennedy
939
00:44:40,765 --> 00:44:43,724
there was a serious problem
here at this church.
940
00:44:44,769 --> 00:44:46,640
Woman: They brought in National Guards
941
00:44:46,858 --> 00:44:48,555
to quell the riots.
942
00:44:48,860 --> 00:44:51,601
The city is now
under martial law,
943
00:44:51,776 --> 00:44:54,474
and troops are on their way
into Montgomery.
944
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:57,259
[cheers and applause]
945
00:45:02,351 --> 00:45:04,353
Lewis: But it led
to the desegregation
946
00:45:04,658 --> 00:45:07,356
of public transportation
all across the South.
947
00:45:09,010 --> 00:45:11,534
[choir vocalizing]
948
00:45:15,234 --> 00:45:17,889
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: So much of John Lewis's activism
949
00:45:18,063 --> 00:45:23,024
was to highlight the inaction
of the federal government.
950
00:45:23,198 --> 00:45:25,853
Despite all of this violence
hap... targeted violence
951
00:45:26,027 --> 00:45:27,420
happening in the South,
952
00:45:27,594 --> 00:45:29,683
the federal government
had its hands tied.
953
00:45:29,857 --> 00:45:31,032
They were wringing their hands.
954
00:45:31,206 --> 00:45:32,338
They were saying,
955
00:45:32,555 --> 00:45:33,556
"Wait another day.
956
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:36,298
Compromise. Slow down.
957
00:45:36,472 --> 00:45:38,605
Don't get too hasty."
958
00:45:38,779 --> 00:45:40,607
And it was that... that attitude
959
00:45:40,781 --> 00:45:43,088
and that energy of youth,
of saying,
960
00:45:43,262 --> 00:45:45,699
"Why do we have to wait
our entire lives
961
00:45:45,873 --> 00:45:49,137
to be seen as equal
in the eyes of the law?"
962
00:45:50,138 --> 00:45:52,097
[indistinct chatter]
963
00:45:55,491 --> 00:45:57,493
Nancy Pelosi:
One of my great experiences
964
00:45:57,667 --> 00:45:59,713
in the Congress,
which I treasure,
965
00:45:59,887 --> 00:46:02,237
was working under
John Lewis's leadership
966
00:46:02,411 --> 00:46:05,240
and other members of
the Congressional Black Caucus.
967
00:46:05,632 --> 00:46:08,026
We put together
the Voting Rights Act
968
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,769
that was passed in 2006.
969
00:46:11,943 --> 00:46:13,945
In a bipartisan way,
970
00:46:14,119 --> 00:46:16,686
we walked House and Senate
leadership
971
00:46:16,861 --> 00:46:19,602
down the steps of the capitol
to salute the fact
972
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:22,344
that we have written
a new Voting Rights Act.
973
00:46:22,518 --> 00:46:24,390
The right of ordinary
men and women
974
00:46:24,564 --> 00:46:26,435
to determine their own
political future
975
00:46:26,827 --> 00:46:29,003
lies at the heart
of the American experiment.
976
00:46:29,177 --> 00:46:30,831
By re-authorizing this act,
977
00:46:31,005 --> 00:46:32,485
Congress has reaffirmed
978
00:46:33,225 --> 00:46:34,487
its belief
979
00:46:35,314 --> 00:46:37,142
that all men are created equal.
980
00:46:37,490 --> 00:46:40,885
I view the Voting Rights
Act of 1965
981
00:46:41,059 --> 00:46:43,017
and its subsequent amendments
982
00:46:43,235 --> 00:46:45,498
as the most important
civil rights bill
983
00:46:45,672 --> 00:46:48,066
that was passed
during the '50s and '60s
984
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:51,765
because it effectively
enfranchised minority voters,
985
00:46:51,939 --> 00:46:55,247
and not just African-Americans
in the South
986
00:46:55,421 --> 00:46:59,251
but other minority voters
of different ethnic backgrounds
987
00:46:59,425 --> 00:47:00,643
in the North,
988
00:47:00,948 --> 00:47:02,907
and I think that
the cooperation,
989
00:47:03,081 --> 00:47:06,954
which has been outstanding between John Lewis and myself,
990
00:47:07,128 --> 00:47:09,348
ends up being an example
991
00:47:09,522 --> 00:47:11,480
that we can get
important things done
992
00:47:11,654 --> 00:47:12,960
by being bipartisan,
993
00:47:13,134 --> 00:47:15,702
whereas if we were not
bipartisan,
994
00:47:15,876 --> 00:47:17,312
they never would have happened.
995
00:47:17,922 --> 00:47:19,184
Pelosi:
President George Bush
996
00:47:19,358 --> 00:47:20,925
signed the legislation
997
00:47:21,099 --> 00:47:24,102
and came to Selma
for the 50th anniversary
998
00:47:24,276 --> 00:47:26,191
and spoke about
how proud he was
999
00:47:26,365 --> 00:47:28,193
to have signed
that Voting Rights Act,
1000
00:47:28,454 --> 00:47:30,848
so I think that
the Voting Rights Act
1001
00:47:31,022 --> 00:47:33,851
and John Lewis
cannot be separated.
1002
00:47:35,548 --> 00:47:38,943
[pensive music]
1003
00:47:39,117 --> 00:47:40,074
Female anchor:
It's considered one
1004
00:47:40,248 --> 00:47:41,771
of the most important pieces
1005
00:47:41,946 --> 00:47:44,122
of civil rights legislation
ever passed,
1006
00:47:44,296 --> 00:47:46,951
but by five to four,
the U.S. Supreme Court today
1007
00:47:47,125 --> 00:47:50,258
took the teeth out of a law
enacted nearly 50 years ago.
1008
00:47:50,432 --> 00:47:51,999
Male anchor:
President Lyndon Johnson
1009
00:47:52,173 --> 00:47:55,046
signed the landmark
law in 1965,
1010
00:47:55,220 --> 00:47:56,743
and ever since,
the Voting Rights Act
1011
00:47:56,917 --> 00:47:58,876
has policed
voting discrimination.
1012
00:48:00,399 --> 00:48:01,879
Lewis: Today the Supreme Court
1013
00:48:03,010 --> 00:48:05,186
stuck a dagger in the heart
1014
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,755
of the Voting Rights Act
of 1965.
1015
00:48:09,843 --> 00:48:11,279
They're saying, in effect,
1016
00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:13,368
that history
cannot repeat itself,
1017
00:48:14,195 --> 00:48:15,805
but I say come
1018
00:48:16,328 --> 00:48:18,417
and walk in my shoes.
1019
00:48:21,420 --> 00:48:22,595
Eric Holder:
Shelby County was suing
1020
00:48:22,769 --> 00:48:24,205
the Justice Department,
1021
00:48:24,379 --> 00:48:26,120
and when you sue
the Justice Department,
1022
00:48:26,294 --> 00:48:28,775
you name the attorney general
as the defendant in the case,
1023
00:48:28,949 --> 00:48:30,864
and so that's why my name,
1024
00:48:31,038 --> 00:48:33,388
unfortunately,
appears on that case.
1025
00:48:33,911 --> 00:48:36,696
The Shelby County decision is one of the most disastrous
1026
00:48:36,870 --> 00:48:39,264
Supreme Court decisions
of all time.
1027
00:48:39,438 --> 00:48:41,266
It gutted
the pre-clearance authority
1028
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,833
that the United States
Department of Justice had,
1029
00:48:44,008 --> 00:48:45,879
which in essence
gave the Justice Department
1030
00:48:46,053 --> 00:48:48,447
the ability
to challenge a change
1031
00:48:48,621 --> 00:48:51,363
that was gonna be made
in a covered locality
1032
00:48:51,537 --> 00:48:53,539
with regard
to voting procedures,
1033
00:48:53,713 --> 00:48:54,932
so that way,
the Justice Department
1034
00:48:55,106 --> 00:48:56,803
could stop something
from happening
1035
00:48:56,977 --> 00:48:58,413
as opposed to filing a lawsuit
1036
00:48:58,587 --> 00:49:00,459
after an election
had already occurred.
1037
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:03,375
Since Shelby County,
about 27 states
1038
00:49:03,549 --> 00:49:07,335
have actually passed
unnecessary photo ID laws,
1039
00:49:07,509 --> 00:49:10,469
purged voter rolls, and over 1,000 polling places
1040
00:49:10,643 --> 00:49:12,601
around the country
have been closed.
1041
00:49:12,775 --> 00:49:15,256
Polling places have been moved without any notice,
1042
00:49:15,430 --> 00:49:16,779
and a whole variety of things
1043
00:49:16,954 --> 00:49:18,520
to make it more difficult
for people
1044
00:49:18,694 --> 00:49:20,131
to get access to the ballot
1045
00:49:20,305 --> 00:49:22,568
go very contrary
to the very work that...
1046
00:49:22,829 --> 00:49:24,874
Eric Holder: John Lewis
has stood for all his life.
1047
00:49:26,006 --> 00:49:28,574
One federal judge said about
what North Carolina did,
1048
00:49:28,748 --> 00:49:31,446
is they acted with
surgical-like precision
1049
00:49:31,620 --> 00:49:33,927
to disenfranchise
African-Americans.
1050
00:49:34,275 --> 00:49:36,930
Um, that's hard for me
to watch that happen,
1051
00:49:37,104 --> 00:49:39,759
and John Lewis beat back
numerous attempts
1052
00:49:39,933 --> 00:49:41,239
over his career of people
1053
00:49:41,413 --> 00:49:43,893
trying to alter voting rights
in a way
1054
00:49:44,068 --> 00:49:46,853
that would discriminate against
not just African-Americans,
1055
00:49:47,027 --> 00:49:49,421
but low-income Americans
and so many others.
1056
00:49:49,682 --> 00:49:52,250
We have state legislatures
that are deliberately trying
1057
00:49:52,424 --> 00:49:54,034
to make it harder
for people to vote.
1058
00:49:54,817 --> 00:49:56,210
Over time,
1059
00:49:57,951 --> 00:50:02,477
the hard-won battles
of 50 years ago erode...
1060
00:50:04,958 --> 00:50:06,960
And our democracy erodes.
1061
00:50:10,746 --> 00:50:12,835
Man: We just came out
of the 2016 election,
1062
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:14,489
where it was the first
presidential election
1063
00:50:14,663 --> 00:50:16,448
in 50 years
without the full protections
1064
00:50:16,622 --> 00:50:17,927
of the Voting Rights Act.
1065
00:50:18,102 --> 00:50:20,452
I waited six hours
and 15 minutes to vote.
1066
00:50:20,626 --> 00:50:24,064
The expected wait time
was three to four hours.
1067
00:50:24,369 --> 00:50:26,197
They should just open it up,
let them come inside,
1068
00:50:26,371 --> 00:50:27,763
and go on home.
1069
00:50:28,155 --> 00:50:31,202
They had one polling location
for 100,000 students.
1070
00:50:31,376 --> 00:50:33,987
Then a recorder goes out
and blames the voters for this.
1071
00:50:34,161 --> 00:50:35,815
How dare you blame us for this.
1072
00:50:35,989 --> 00:50:37,599
[cheers and applause]
1073
00:50:37,773 --> 00:50:39,210
Female anchor 1:
House Democrats unveiled
1074
00:50:39,384 --> 00:50:41,908
their first major piece
of legislation.
1075
00:50:42,082 --> 00:50:43,953
Female anchor 2: It puts more
power in the hands of voters
1076
00:50:44,128 --> 00:50:45,868
by restoring
the Voting Rights Act
1077
00:50:46,043 --> 00:50:48,523
and improving automatic
voter registration.
1078
00:50:49,959 --> 00:50:52,745
Pelosi:
Today we are introducing HR1
1079
00:50:52,962 --> 00:50:54,181
to clean up corruption
1080
00:50:54,355 --> 00:50:57,184
and restore integrity
to government.
1081
00:50:57,358 --> 00:51:00,187
[cheers and applause]
1082
00:51:02,146 --> 00:51:04,235
Lewis: The last two years
1083
00:51:04,452 --> 00:51:07,368
have made it clear
there are forces
1084
00:51:07,542 --> 00:51:12,112
which invest thousands
and millions of dollars
1085
00:51:12,460 --> 00:51:16,247
in drowning out the voice
of the people of this country.
1086
00:51:17,422 --> 00:51:20,729
I truly believe the way votes
were not counted
1087
00:51:20,903 --> 00:51:23,819
and purged
in Georgia and Florida...
1088
00:51:23,993 --> 00:51:25,952
- Go on, tell it, John.
- And other states
1089
00:51:26,126 --> 00:51:28,433
changed the outcome
of the last election.
1090
00:51:28,607 --> 00:51:32,045
That must never happen again
in our country, never again.
1091
00:51:32,219 --> 00:51:33,351
Never again.
1092
00:51:33,655 --> 00:51:36,484
[cheers and applause]
1093
00:51:38,791 --> 00:51:40,836
Woman: Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell
1094
00:51:41,010 --> 00:51:44,057
says the Senate
will not vote on HR1.
1095
00:51:44,231 --> 00:51:45,493
Their bill would make
election day
1096
00:51:45,667 --> 00:51:49,193
a new paid holiday
for government workers.
1097
00:51:49,454 --> 00:51:53,197
This new Democrat
socialist majority
1098
00:51:53,936 --> 00:51:56,765
wants the federal government
to interfere
1099
00:51:56,939 --> 00:51:58,550
in our free and fair elections.
1100
00:51:58,767 --> 00:52:01,509
It violates our free speech
rights by requiring
1101
00:52:01,683 --> 00:52:05,034
the publishing of the names
and addresses of donors.
1102
00:52:05,470 --> 00:52:08,647
Lewis: Every day in the Congress
is a fight.
1103
00:52:09,126 --> 00:52:10,953
I just keep on believing
1104
00:52:11,432 --> 00:52:12,955
that we can change things,
1105
00:52:13,130 --> 00:52:15,480
that we can make things better.
1106
00:52:20,137 --> 00:52:26,230
Bettie Mae Fikes: [singing]
♪ When the world♪
1107
00:52:26,404 --> 00:52:27,318
Ha!
1108
00:52:27,492 --> 00:52:30,756
♪ Is tossing me ♪
1109
00:52:30,930 --> 00:52:32,627
Man: Yeah. Yeah.
1110
00:52:32,888 --> 00:52:34,934
♪ Like a ship ♪
1111
00:52:35,108 --> 00:52:40,766
♪ Out on ♪
1112
00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:41,854
Hmm.
1113
00:52:42,028 --> 00:52:45,118
♪ The sea ♪
1114
00:52:45,292 --> 00:52:47,990
♪ Thou who knows ♪
1115
00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:53,387
♪ All about it ♪
1116
00:52:53,561 --> 00:52:58,349
♪ Stand by, stand by ♪
1117
00:52:58,523 --> 00:53:02,788
♪ Stand by ♪
1118
00:53:02,962 --> 00:53:06,444
♪ Me ♪
1119
00:53:06,618 --> 00:53:08,185
When we got arrested,
1120
00:53:09,011 --> 00:53:10,926
the things that held us up
1121
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:15,540
and helped us go through
all the brutality
1122
00:53:16,149 --> 00:53:18,847
and uncertainty was the music.
1123
00:53:20,806 --> 00:53:22,503
John was with us a lot of times.
1124
00:53:22,677 --> 00:53:24,331
Lewis: I couldn't carry a tune.
1125
00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:26,377
- I couldn't carry a tune.
- [laughs]
1126
00:53:26,551 --> 00:53:28,509
Man: Congressman Lewis said
he couldn't carry a tune.
1127
00:53:28,683 --> 00:53:30,119
- Do you want to...
- Lewis: No, no, no.
1128
00:53:30,294 --> 00:53:31,947
[laughter]
1129
00:53:32,165 --> 00:53:33,601
But we would sing.
1130
00:53:33,862 --> 00:53:35,951
Well, they played together,
the dogs, you know,
1131
00:53:36,125 --> 00:53:38,824
from the black family
and the white family,
1132
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:41,174
but the children
couldn't play together.
1133
00:53:42,262 --> 00:53:45,265
So, they made up a song,
you know, called "Dogs."
1134
00:53:45,439 --> 00:53:47,833
[group singing]
♪ My dog loves your dog ♪
1135
00:53:48,007 --> 00:53:49,095
♪ And your dog ♪
1136
00:53:49,269 --> 00:53:50,401
♪ Loves my dog ♪
1137
00:53:50,575 --> 00:53:53,491
♪ Then why can't we ♪
1138
00:53:53,665 --> 00:53:56,581
♪ Sit under the apple tree ♪
1139
00:53:56,755 --> 00:53:59,148
♪ You won't walk with me ♪
1140
00:53:59,323 --> 00:54:01,847
♪ You won't talk with me ♪
1141
00:54:02,021 --> 00:54:04,806
♪ Well, why don't you
Hold my hand ♪
1142
00:54:04,980 --> 00:54:07,287
♪ Tell me you understand ♪
1143
00:54:07,461 --> 00:54:11,900
♪ Now, can't you see
that you and me ♪
1144
00:54:12,074 --> 00:54:14,990
♪ We'll be so happy ♪
1145
00:54:15,164 --> 00:54:18,037
♪ Sitting under
The apple tree ♪
1146
00:54:18,211 --> 00:54:21,083
[vocalizing]
1147
00:54:21,258 --> 00:54:24,086
[all harmonizing]
1148
00:54:24,261 --> 00:54:26,872
[cheers and applause]
1149
00:54:27,133 --> 00:54:28,439
Woman: That was awesome.
1150
00:54:28,613 --> 00:54:31,355
[lively music playing]
1151
00:54:40,146 --> 00:54:41,843
Get with it, Michael.
1152
00:54:42,017 --> 00:54:45,282
[indistinct singing]
1153
00:54:45,456 --> 00:54:46,935
Welcome, brother.
How you been doing?
1154
00:54:47,109 --> 00:54:48,415
I'm doing good.
1155
00:54:48,589 --> 00:54:49,721
How you doing, my dear?
1156
00:54:49,895 --> 00:54:51,331
Hey, so good
to see you again.
1157
00:54:51,505 --> 00:54:53,028
- Good to see you again.
- Yes.
1158
00:54:53,202 --> 00:54:54,769
- Thank you all so much.
- Woman: Our honor.
1159
00:54:54,943 --> 00:54:56,641
- It was our honor.
- Thank you. Good to see you.
1160
00:54:56,815 --> 00:54:58,207
- Our honor.
- Thank you.
1161
00:54:58,382 --> 00:54:59,600
- God bless you.
- It's just for the Lord.
1162
00:54:59,774 --> 00:55:00,819
That's what it was.
1163
00:55:00,993 --> 00:55:02,255
Thank you.
1164
00:55:03,125 --> 00:55:04,039
You come...
1165
00:55:04,213 --> 00:55:06,128
[indistinct]
1166
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:08,043
It was like, whoo!
1167
00:55:08,217 --> 00:55:10,045
[laughter]
1168
00:55:10,481 --> 00:55:12,004
Collins:
Got lipstick on the lips.
1169
00:55:12,178 --> 00:55:13,440
That's a good sign.
1170
00:55:13,614 --> 00:55:15,442
Congressman, you're on tape.
1171
00:55:15,616 --> 00:55:19,054
[laughter]
1172
00:55:19,228 --> 00:55:20,839
You're on tape. Uh...
1173
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:23,842
You just came out of church.
1174
00:55:24,016 --> 00:55:25,452
Praise God.
1175
00:55:25,626 --> 00:55:27,454
You got lipstick on the side,
on the front.
1176
00:55:27,672 --> 00:55:29,804
- Michael, you need to stop it.
- Collins: I'm just saying.
1177
00:55:30,022 --> 00:55:31,328
I'm just saying.
1178
00:55:31,502 --> 00:55:33,460
Talk... pray for this guy. Pray.
1179
00:55:33,634 --> 00:55:35,941
Collins: Got lipstick
on the front, on the side.
1180
00:55:36,115 --> 00:55:37,464
- Woman: On the side.
- Collins: Everywhere.
1181
00:55:37,638 --> 00:55:39,466
I didn't ask anyone to kiss me.
1182
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,991
Hey, the little lady just
walked up and planted a kiss.
1183
00:55:43,165 --> 00:55:45,951
[laughter]
1184
00:55:48,257 --> 00:55:49,824
Lewis:
Michael, you're not gonna assist
1185
00:55:49,998 --> 00:55:51,173
an old man going up the step?
1186
00:55:51,522 --> 00:55:52,784
Got a step it...
1187
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,179
Be like old [indistinct],
come on.
1188
00:55:57,528 --> 00:55:59,704
- Stop it.
- [laughing]
1189
00:56:01,183 --> 00:56:02,663
Watch the water.
1190
00:56:02,837 --> 00:56:04,143
- Michael?
- What?
1191
00:56:04,491 --> 00:56:06,624
Look, I've been baptized,
so you just...
1192
00:56:07,146 --> 00:56:09,148
some water
was sprinkled on your head.
1193
00:56:09,322 --> 00:56:10,584
I went under.
1194
00:56:12,978 --> 00:56:14,109
What's the difference?
1195
00:56:14,283 --> 00:56:15,676
It's a different.
1196
00:56:15,850 --> 00:56:17,591
You mean, you're more
baptized than me?
1197
00:56:17,765 --> 00:56:18,897
Yes.
1198
00:56:19,506 --> 00:56:22,030
I went under, in a creek.
1199
00:56:22,204 --> 00:56:23,597
I had the sprinkle.
1200
00:56:23,771 --> 00:56:24,903
What's that matter?
What's the difference?
1201
00:56:25,077 --> 00:56:25,991
- That just...
- [Collins laughs]
1202
00:56:27,079 --> 00:56:28,472
...some beads
1203
00:56:29,037 --> 00:56:30,343
going on your head.
1204
00:56:31,779 --> 00:56:34,434
We go down under the water.
They bring us back up.
1205
00:56:34,782 --> 00:56:35,653
Ooh.
1206
00:56:36,697 --> 00:56:40,092
[laughter]
1207
00:56:40,266 --> 00:56:41,441
So silly.
1208
00:56:41,615 --> 00:56:42,790
Don't let me fall.
1209
00:56:44,357 --> 00:56:46,228
- Hi, you.
- How you doing?
1210
00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:47,621
I'm doing fine.
1211
00:56:47,882 --> 00:56:49,406
Hey, how your chickens doing?
1212
00:56:50,363 --> 00:56:51,799
Good.
1213
00:56:52,104 --> 00:56:53,888
Chickens are mean creatures.
1214
00:56:54,062 --> 00:56:55,716
Really? What they do?
They fight?
1215
00:56:55,890 --> 00:56:57,239
Fight each other, pecking.
1216
00:56:57,414 --> 00:56:59,111
They'll fight through the wire.
1217
00:57:00,895 --> 00:57:03,768
If one chicken
is on one side, they'll fight?
1218
00:57:05,944 --> 00:57:07,946
See, my chickens
are nonviolent.
1219
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,643
I taught them the way of peace.
1220
00:57:11,123 --> 00:57:12,429
So, that's the way I looked
1221
00:57:12,603 --> 00:57:13,821
as a young boy
1222
00:57:14,779 --> 00:57:16,476
growing up outside of Troy.
1223
00:57:17,129 --> 00:57:19,566
Ah. So, the very first time
I saw this piece,
1224
00:57:19,958 --> 00:57:23,135
I said, "Well, part of me
thinks it's John Lewis,
1225
00:57:24,179 --> 00:57:26,704
but the other part thinks
it might be Jay-Z
1226
00:57:26,878 --> 00:57:28,749
'cause it's got
a little hair on it."
1227
00:57:28,923 --> 00:57:30,316
Man 1: That is so true though.
that is true.
1228
00:57:30,490 --> 00:57:32,318
- I have to tell my...
- Man 1: A young Jay-Z.
1229
00:57:32,492 --> 00:57:34,363
That is so true. That is funny.
1230
00:57:34,538 --> 00:57:35,974
Man 2: That's crazy.
1231
00:57:36,148 --> 00:57:38,803
[soft piano music]
1232
00:57:41,849 --> 00:57:43,460
Lewis: When I was asked
1233
00:57:43,634 --> 00:57:46,593
by the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
1234
00:57:46,941 --> 00:57:49,466
to chair the organization,
1235
00:57:50,336 --> 00:57:53,252
I was elected,
and I moved to Atlanta.
1236
00:57:55,428 --> 00:57:57,691
I remember being
in one meeting.
1237
00:57:58,779 --> 00:58:01,869
Thurgood Marshall said, "John,
1238
00:58:02,130 --> 00:58:04,306
you all just damn fools, really,
1239
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:06,047
for keep going,
getting arrested,
1240
00:58:06,221 --> 00:58:08,397
and getting your head beat in."
1241
00:58:08,702 --> 00:58:10,574
He said,
"Just get one case,
1242
00:58:11,749 --> 00:58:13,838
and we'll take it to the NAACP."
1243
00:58:14,099 --> 00:58:15,361
I said, "Mr. Marshall... "
1244
00:58:15,709 --> 00:58:17,058
I was so young.
1245
00:58:18,799 --> 00:58:21,628
Then I was 21,
talking to Thurgood Marshall.
1246
00:58:22,063 --> 00:58:23,238
I said, "Mr. Marshall,
1247
00:58:24,631 --> 00:58:26,415
I appreciate all of your work.
1248
00:58:26,633 --> 00:58:28,287
I appreciate your contribution,
1249
00:58:28,722 --> 00:58:30,507
but we need a mass movement."
1250
00:58:32,813 --> 00:58:36,513
My first major responsibility was to represent SNCC
1251
00:58:36,774 --> 00:58:39,777
to help organize
the March on Washington.
1252
00:58:40,647 --> 00:58:43,258
I wrote Congressman Lewis'
introduction speech
1253
00:58:43,432 --> 00:58:45,957
for... Barack Obama
1254
00:58:46,131 --> 00:58:48,873
when he was being nominated
in 2008.
1255
00:58:49,047 --> 00:58:51,876
I said to him, "Congressman,
have you ever spoken
1256
00:58:52,050 --> 00:58:53,965
before a crowd this large?"
1257
00:58:54,139 --> 00:58:55,619
And he looked at me and said,
1258
00:58:55,793 --> 00:58:59,057
"Brenda, I spoke at
the March on Washington,"
1259
00:58:59,753 --> 00:59:02,147
and I thought,
"Right, of course."
1260
00:59:02,408 --> 00:59:05,324
[applause]
1261
00:59:09,023 --> 00:59:10,329
I have the pleasure
1262
00:59:10,503 --> 00:59:12,592
to present
to this great audience,
1263
00:59:12,766 --> 00:59:15,726
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee,
1264
00:59:15,987 --> 00:59:17,858
Brother John Lewis.
1265
00:59:18,119 --> 00:59:21,122
[cheers and applause]
1266
00:59:21,296 --> 00:59:22,907
Lewis: In the beginning,
President Kennedy
1267
00:59:23,081 --> 00:59:25,649
was not supportive
of the idea of a march.
1268
00:59:25,823 --> 00:59:28,042
He thought there would
be violence and chaos
1269
00:59:28,216 --> 00:59:29,740
and we wouldn't get
a civil rights bill
1270
00:59:29,914 --> 00:59:31,350
through the Congress.
1271
00:59:31,872 --> 00:59:36,094
I learned to listen to people like A. Philip Randolph,
1272
00:59:36,355 --> 00:59:38,836
Dr. King, Roy Wilkins,
1273
00:59:39,010 --> 00:59:42,230
James Forman, Whitney Young.
1274
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,276
Lafayette:
John was sensitive and aware
1275
00:59:44,450 --> 00:59:47,584
that he wanted things
to go smoothly,
1276
00:59:47,801 --> 00:59:49,673
and when they asked him
to change his speech,
1277
00:59:49,847 --> 00:59:52,414
one phrase was talking about
marching into Atlanta
1278
00:59:52,589 --> 00:59:53,938
like Sherman,
1279
00:59:54,155 --> 00:59:57,550
which sounds
a little bit inflammatory.
1280
00:59:57,985 --> 01:00:00,684
He agreed that he would
accommodate,
1281
01:00:00,858 --> 01:00:02,773
you know, by taking that out.
1282
01:00:03,817 --> 01:00:06,559
Let us not forget
that we are involved
1283
01:00:06,733 --> 01:00:08,605
in a serious social revolution.
1284
01:00:08,822 --> 01:00:10,650
Where is the political party
1285
01:00:10,824 --> 01:00:13,653
that will make it unnecessary
to march on Washington?
1286
01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:16,525
Where is the political party
that will make it unnecessary
1287
01:00:16,700 --> 01:00:18,832
to march in the streets
of Birmingham?
1288
01:00:19,441 --> 01:00:22,357
Those that say be patient
and wait,
1289
01:00:22,531 --> 01:00:24,577
we must say that
we cannot be patient.
1290
01:00:25,056 --> 01:00:26,666
If we do not get
meaningful legislation
1291
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:28,102
out of this Congress,
1292
01:00:28,276 --> 01:00:29,930
we will march
through the South,
1293
01:00:30,104 --> 01:00:31,628
through the streets of Jackson,
1294
01:00:31,802 --> 01:00:33,107
through the streets
of Danville,
1295
01:00:33,281 --> 01:00:34,674
through the streets
of Cambridge,
1296
01:00:34,848 --> 01:00:36,589
through the streets
of Birmingham.
1297
01:00:36,763 --> 01:00:39,636
[cheers and applause]
1298
01:00:43,378 --> 01:00:44,771
But we will march
1299
01:00:45,206 --> 01:00:46,991
with the spirit of love
1300
01:00:47,165 --> 01:00:49,776
and with the spirit of dignity
that we have shown here today.
1301
01:00:51,343 --> 01:00:54,041
We must say wake up,
America, wake up.
1302
01:00:54,215 --> 01:00:57,871
For we cannot stop, and we
will not and cannot be patient.
1303
01:00:58,306 --> 01:01:01,353
[cheers and applause]
1304
01:01:01,570 --> 01:01:03,877
[solemn music]
1305
01:01:19,327 --> 01:01:21,112
[siren wailing]
1306
01:01:21,286 --> 01:01:23,462
Male anchor: Eighteen days after the March on Washington,
1307
01:01:23,636 --> 01:01:25,116
Birmingham, Alabama,
1308
01:01:25,420 --> 01:01:28,032
a bomb exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church
1309
01:01:28,206 --> 01:01:30,512
just before a Sunday
morning service.
1310
01:01:30,817 --> 01:01:32,514
Fifteen people were injured.
1311
01:01:33,037 --> 01:01:34,516
Four children were killed.
1312
01:01:44,483 --> 01:01:45,832
Malcolm X:
Black people in this country
1313
01:01:46,006 --> 01:01:47,312
have been the victims
1314
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:48,574
of violence at the hands
of the white man
1315
01:01:48,748 --> 01:01:50,054
for 400 years,
1316
01:01:50,228 --> 01:01:52,926
and following the ignorant
Negro preachers,
1317
01:01:53,100 --> 01:01:54,841
we have thought
that it was Godlike
1318
01:01:55,015 --> 01:01:56,190
to turn the other cheek
1319
01:01:56,364 --> 01:01:57,975
to the brute
that was brutalizing us,
1320
01:01:58,149 --> 01:01:59,672
and today the honorable
Elijah Muhammad
1321
01:01:59,846 --> 01:02:01,543
is showing black people
in this country
1322
01:02:01,718 --> 01:02:02,936
that just as the white man
1323
01:02:03,110 --> 01:02:04,721
and every other person
on this Earth
1324
01:02:04,895 --> 01:02:07,375
has God-given rights,
natural rights, civil rights,
1325
01:02:07,549 --> 01:02:08,986
any kind of rights
that you can think of
1326
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:10,770
when it comes
to defending himself,
1327
01:02:10,944 --> 01:02:12,554
black people should have...
we should have the right
1328
01:02:12,729 --> 01:02:13,947
to defend ourselves also.
1329
01:02:17,255 --> 01:02:18,822
Lewis: I took the position
1330
01:02:19,866 --> 01:02:21,781
that whatever we do,
1331
01:02:22,390 --> 01:02:24,131
we must do it in an orderly,
1332
01:02:24,741 --> 01:02:27,569
peaceful, nonviolent fashion.
1333
01:02:28,527 --> 01:02:32,705
And I believed in a biracial
or interracial movement.
1334
01:02:32,923 --> 01:02:34,881
That's the only way
we going to succeed.
1335
01:02:36,491 --> 01:02:38,929
I served three long years
1336
01:02:39,581 --> 01:02:41,279
as chair of SNCC,
1337
01:02:42,236 --> 01:02:46,327
and I remember people at one
of the meetings that we had
1338
01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:49,200
started talking
about black power.
1339
01:02:49,548 --> 01:02:52,420
[jazzy music]
1340
01:02:52,594 --> 01:02:55,772
During those days, I never chanted "black power."
1341
01:02:56,947 --> 01:02:58,383
I think we all have power.
1342
01:03:01,168 --> 01:03:02,561
I was challenged
1343
01:03:02,779 --> 01:03:04,345
and then de-elected.
1344
01:03:06,086 --> 01:03:07,740
Stokely succeeded.
1345
01:03:08,001 --> 01:03:09,437
Stokely Carmichael:
So, we form our own party,
1346
01:03:09,611 --> 01:03:10,482
and we seek power.
1347
01:03:10,656 --> 01:03:11,918
We don't seek integration.
1348
01:03:12,092 --> 01:03:13,485
That's irrelevant
for what we want.
1349
01:03:13,659 --> 01:03:15,400
We want power,
and this is the way we get it.
1350
01:03:15,922 --> 01:03:17,924
And I said,
"It's time for me to leave."
1351
01:03:25,192 --> 01:03:26,150
Kitty?
1352
01:03:26,324 --> 01:03:27,194
[cat mews]
1353
01:03:29,718 --> 01:03:30,850
Kitty, kitty?
1354
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:34,419
The other one went
under there someplace.
1355
01:03:52,350 --> 01:03:54,743
This piece, it's saying,
in effect,
1356
01:03:54,918 --> 01:03:57,398
that the same hands
that pick cotton,
1357
01:03:58,399 --> 01:04:01,750
well, today these hands
are picking elected officials.
1358
01:04:01,925 --> 01:04:03,187
Woman:
Or they are elected officials.
1359
01:04:03,448 --> 01:04:05,319
They are elected officials.
1360
01:04:06,712 --> 01:04:11,151
This is one of the first major
pieces of art that we acquired.
1361
01:04:11,325 --> 01:04:14,372
My wife was born and raised
in Los Angeles.
1362
01:04:15,155 --> 01:04:17,897
In downtown L.A.
we went by this gallery,
1363
01:04:18,071 --> 01:04:19,159
and we saw this piece,
1364
01:04:20,508 --> 01:04:22,336
and my wife
fell in love with it.
1365
01:04:22,510 --> 01:04:24,164
I fell in love with it.
1366
01:04:24,817 --> 01:04:26,688
This is "Confrontation
at the Bridge."
1367
01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:30,083
It just is a... it's
a very powerful piece.
1368
01:04:30,518 --> 01:04:34,174
My wife, she was determined
in some way to...
1369
01:04:34,435 --> 01:04:37,656
save enough money
in order for us to buy it,
1370
01:04:37,830 --> 01:04:39,136
and that's what she did.
1371
01:04:39,963 --> 01:04:43,444
[soft piano music]
1372
01:04:47,753 --> 01:04:49,842
Xernona Clayton:
Lillian had come to Atlanta
1373
01:04:50,016 --> 01:04:53,150
to accept a job
at Atlanta University.
1374
01:04:53,454 --> 01:04:57,589
She knew every speech that Martin Luther King ever made,
1375
01:04:57,937 --> 01:05:00,331
and he had heard about her.
1376
01:05:00,505 --> 01:05:02,681
So, he said,
"Do you remember, Lillian,
1377
01:05:02,855 --> 01:05:06,163
when I made the speech
at the University of Ohio?"
1378
01:05:06,424 --> 01:05:10,254
So, she said, "No, that wasn't
where you made that speech.
1379
01:05:10,428 --> 01:05:12,386
That was the University
of Denver," or something.
1380
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:13,692
[laughs]
1381
01:05:13,866 --> 01:05:15,259
And he would fall down laughing.
1382
01:05:15,999 --> 01:05:18,262
She was very opinionated,
1383
01:05:18,436 --> 01:05:20,742
independent, and smart.
1384
01:05:21,743 --> 01:05:25,356
I liked John
because he was just kind,
1385
01:05:25,965 --> 01:05:28,054
and one day,
I just got the idea,
1386
01:05:28,272 --> 01:05:31,101
"Hmm, I think
they'd make a good match."
1387
01:05:31,492 --> 01:05:35,279
And she was wearing
a beautiful dress,
1388
01:05:36,193 --> 01:05:37,672
and it had the peace symbols,
1389
01:05:37,846 --> 01:05:39,152
and I said to myself,
1390
01:05:39,457 --> 01:05:41,241
"This young lady
believes in peace,"
1391
01:05:41,415 --> 01:05:42,851
and I don't know
whether it was planned
1392
01:05:43,026 --> 01:05:44,462
or whether it was a conspiracy
1393
01:05:44,636 --> 01:05:46,681
on the part
of the host of the party.
1394
01:05:48,248 --> 01:05:50,207
Clayton: And it was
a beautiful marriage.
1395
01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:52,383
John Miles Lewis:
And I loved my ma.
1396
01:05:52,557 --> 01:05:53,906
She was a...
1397
01:05:54,385 --> 01:05:55,560
ray of light.
1398
01:05:56,256 --> 01:05:58,041
That was my heart right there.
1399
01:05:59,042 --> 01:06:00,957
Lewis: She loved to travel.
1400
01:06:01,131 --> 01:06:03,002
We'd go down to rural Alabama.
1401
01:06:03,872 --> 01:06:05,396
She couldn't stand us
going fishing.
1402
01:06:05,570 --> 01:06:07,093
She said it was so cruel
1403
01:06:07,398 --> 01:06:10,662
pulling the fish
out of the water,
1404
01:06:10,836 --> 01:06:13,795
and the fish is jumping
and trying to breathe for life,
1405
01:06:13,970 --> 01:06:16,276
and she just think that...
1406
01:06:16,537 --> 01:06:18,017
the right thing to do.
1407
01:06:19,497 --> 01:06:21,803
But then we cooked the fish.
1408
01:06:22,195 --> 01:06:23,501
She ate the fish.
1409
01:06:31,161 --> 01:06:34,294
Clayton: I think he relied on her tremendously.
1410
01:06:41,519 --> 01:06:43,216
It's hard to tell
1411
01:06:43,651 --> 01:06:47,177
what kind of void
that creates for him.
1412
01:06:48,961 --> 01:06:50,876
I think he got quieter,
1413
01:06:51,529 --> 01:06:54,271
you know, like, sad, sad.
1414
01:06:54,923 --> 01:06:57,839
But you love 'em,
1415
01:06:58,318 --> 01:06:59,754
but you gotta let 'em go.
1416
01:07:08,111 --> 01:07:11,114
[cheers and applause]
1417
01:07:11,288 --> 01:07:12,637
Ruth Berg:
I am honored and privileged
1418
01:07:12,811 --> 01:07:15,292
to welcome all of you
to the staff reunion
1419
01:07:15,466 --> 01:07:18,077
for the honorable
Congressman John Lewis.
1420
01:07:18,425 --> 01:07:20,427
I worked for the congressman
for 20 years
1421
01:07:20,601 --> 01:07:22,255
as his receptionist.
1422
01:07:22,429 --> 01:07:24,344
I am so very grateful
1423
01:07:24,518 --> 01:07:27,260
for valuable lessons
that I learned from him.
1424
01:07:27,478 --> 01:07:29,175
Get into trouble,
1425
01:07:29,436 --> 01:07:30,437
good trouble.
1426
01:07:30,742 --> 01:07:32,657
Speak up, and speak out.
1427
01:07:32,961 --> 01:07:34,615
And most importantly,
1428
01:07:35,094 --> 01:07:37,705
don't get lost
in a sea of despair.
1429
01:07:38,271 --> 01:07:40,099
What he has meant to me,
I'm sure he means
1430
01:07:40,273 --> 01:07:41,927
the same thing
to all of you folks
1431
01:07:42,101 --> 01:07:43,842
that are in this room tonight.
1432
01:07:44,060 --> 01:07:46,236
Let's give him
a big round of applause.
1433
01:07:46,410 --> 01:07:48,020
Come on up, Mr. Lewis.
1434
01:07:48,194 --> 01:07:50,936
[cheers and applause]
1435
01:07:51,110 --> 01:07:52,416
Hello, everybody.
1436
01:07:53,025 --> 01:07:54,766
- All: Hello.
- You look good.
1437
01:07:54,940 --> 01:07:56,811
[scattered laughter]
1438
01:07:56,985 --> 01:07:58,726
All of you look so young.
1439
01:07:59,249 --> 01:08:00,511
What happened to me?
1440
01:08:02,078 --> 01:08:04,123
Thank you for putting up
with me.
1441
01:08:04,297 --> 01:08:06,256
[laughter]
1442
01:08:06,430 --> 01:08:08,345
I know sometimes
I was not the most
1443
01:08:08,823 --> 01:08:10,390
nonviolent person...
1444
01:08:10,564 --> 01:08:12,653
[laughter]
1445
01:08:12,827 --> 01:08:14,307
But I appreciate you.
1446
01:08:14,829 --> 01:08:16,222
I love you.
1447
01:08:16,396 --> 01:08:20,400
- Man: Tell the chicken story.
- Oh, oh.
1448
01:08:20,574 --> 01:08:22,576
You really don't wanna hear
that story.
1449
01:08:23,099 --> 01:08:25,318
No. Don't make me do it.
1450
01:08:25,492 --> 01:08:26,928
[laughter]
1451
01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:28,713
Don't try me.
1452
01:08:30,410 --> 01:08:33,457
Well, you know,
I grew up in rural Alabama...
1453
01:08:33,631 --> 01:08:36,460
[laughter, applause]
1454
01:08:39,941 --> 01:08:42,857
Outside of a little place
called Troy.
1455
01:08:44,990 --> 01:08:47,340
Any of you know anything
about raising chickens?
1456
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:49,690
Oh, you don't wanna hear
this story.
1457
01:08:49,864 --> 01:08:51,257
Man: We can learn it from you.
1458
01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:52,693
Lewis: Look,
when I was a little boy,
1459
01:08:52,867 --> 01:08:54,391
I wanted to be a minister,
1460
01:08:54,695 --> 01:08:56,784
and I would preach
to the chickens.
1461
01:08:57,045 --> 01:08:59,178
Some of these chickens
would bow their heads.
1462
01:08:59,352 --> 01:09:01,398
Some of these chickens
would shake their heads.
1463
01:09:01,572 --> 01:09:04,140
They never quite said "amen".
1464
01:09:04,314 --> 01:09:05,880
Well, that's enough of that.
1465
01:09:06,054 --> 01:09:07,230
[laughter]
1466
01:09:07,404 --> 01:09:08,579
Look...
1467
01:09:09,145 --> 01:09:10,711
we all have been
called to do something.
1468
01:09:11,756 --> 01:09:15,107
You that are so young
must continue to lead.
1469
01:09:20,982 --> 01:09:22,462
Jamila, this is what
I'm saying to members
1470
01:09:22,636 --> 01:09:23,985
of... to our committee?
1471
01:09:24,290 --> 01:09:25,552
Yes, sir, this is the statement
1472
01:09:25,726 --> 01:09:27,989
for the introduction
of the caucus.
1473
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:29,600
How many witnesses
are we having?
1474
01:09:29,774 --> 01:09:31,254
- We only have five.
- Oh, my God.
1475
01:09:31,428 --> 01:09:33,169
Yes sir, four Democrats,
one Republican.
1476
01:09:33,386 --> 01:09:35,171
- Okay.
- Two former...
1477
01:09:35,345 --> 01:09:36,911
Don't... don't make me laugh.
1478
01:09:37,608 --> 01:09:38,522
Don't do it.
1479
01:09:38,696 --> 01:09:39,827
I won't.
1480
01:09:40,263 --> 01:09:41,655
Two of our witnesses are...
1481
01:09:41,829 --> 01:09:43,135
Seems like we're...
1482
01:09:45,006 --> 01:09:46,269
we're doing to them...
1483
01:09:46,443 --> 01:09:48,358
- What they did to us.
- Mm.
1484
01:09:49,097 --> 01:09:50,316
But we haven't done this
in so long.
1485
01:09:50,490 --> 01:09:51,491
So long.
1486
01:09:52,797 --> 01:09:54,364
Lewis: Now we're in a majority.
1487
01:09:55,147 --> 01:09:56,409
Today's hearing,
1488
01:09:56,583 --> 01:09:58,803
we will review
whether a president,
1489
01:09:59,107 --> 01:10:01,545
vice president, or any candidate
1490
01:10:01,806 --> 01:10:05,201
for these offices
should be required by law
1491
01:10:05,679 --> 01:10:08,334
to make their tax return
available to the public.
1492
01:10:08,987 --> 01:10:10,162
Ken Keyes,
1493
01:10:10,380 --> 01:10:12,904
Mr. Keyes,
you're not a stranger.
1494
01:10:13,078 --> 01:10:16,342
You've been before
this committee before, so.
1495
01:10:16,821 --> 01:10:18,257
We'll try to keep
a little humor going.
1496
01:10:18,431 --> 01:10:20,085
- Yes, sir.
- Okay.
1497
01:10:20,303 --> 01:10:21,217
So, you have 20 minutes.
1498
01:10:21,391 --> 01:10:22,479
Have you eaten yet, Congressman?
1499
01:10:22,653 --> 01:10:24,307
- Yes, yes, mm-hmm.
- Okay.
1500
01:10:24,481 --> 01:10:26,004
I think we're ready.
1501
01:10:26,744 --> 01:10:29,181
Woman: This is good,
takes a little shine off there.
1502
01:10:29,964 --> 01:10:31,401
What about my forehead?
1503
01:10:31,836 --> 01:10:33,664
I don't want it to blind anyone.
1504
01:10:33,838 --> 01:10:35,579
[woman chuckles]
1505
01:10:39,322 --> 01:10:40,845
I told them, I said oversight,
1506
01:10:41,062 --> 01:10:42,890
we're like a well-oiled machine.
1507
01:10:43,064 --> 01:10:44,370
We don't do drama.
1508
01:10:52,291 --> 01:10:54,380
When President Nixon
faced questions
1509
01:10:54,554 --> 01:10:56,774
about his federal income taxes,
1510
01:10:57,601 --> 01:10:58,993
he said,
1511
01:10:59,559 --> 01:11:01,953
"I welcome this kind
of examination
1512
01:11:02,432 --> 01:11:04,695
because people
have got to know
1513
01:11:05,086 --> 01:11:06,349
whether or not
1514
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:08,655
their president is a crook."
1515
01:11:09,352 --> 01:11:11,354
Understanding President
Trump's financial interests
1516
01:11:11,528 --> 01:11:13,094
could, for example,
1517
01:11:13,269 --> 01:11:15,706
shed light on exactly how
he and his businesses
1518
01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,056
will be affected
by the massive tax legislation
1519
01:11:18,230 --> 01:11:19,797
he championed last year.
1520
01:11:20,058 --> 01:11:22,103
It would set a very
dangerous precedent,
1521
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:24,454
and the question is,
where does it end?
1522
01:11:24,628 --> 01:11:26,282
What about the tax
returns of the Speaker,
1523
01:11:26,456 --> 01:11:27,761
members of Congress?
1524
01:11:28,109 --> 01:11:30,111
The chairman of the committee
may request
1525
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:32,462
the tax return information
of any taxpayer
1526
01:11:32,636 --> 01:11:34,420
from the treasury secretary,
1527
01:11:34,725 --> 01:11:36,901
who is obligated to furnish it.
1528
01:11:37,249 --> 01:11:38,903
Should the secretary refuse,
1529
01:11:39,077 --> 01:11:41,340
we would be
in uncharted territory.
1530
01:11:42,863 --> 01:11:44,648
Female reporter: The treasury
secretary, Steve Mnuchin,
1531
01:11:44,822 --> 01:11:47,085
defying yet another subpoena
from Congress,
1532
01:11:47,259 --> 01:11:49,740
this time for six years of
the president's tax returns.
1533
01:11:49,914 --> 01:11:51,481
Male reporter: House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi today
1534
01:11:51,655 --> 01:11:53,221
became the latest Democrat
to call
1535
01:11:53,396 --> 01:11:55,136
the Trump administration's
refusal to comply
1536
01:11:55,441 --> 01:11:56,747
with congressional subpoenas
1537
01:11:57,269 --> 01:11:59,053
a constitutional crisis.
1538
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:03,014
[indistinct conversation]
1539
01:12:13,807 --> 01:12:15,853
John, hey. John Lewis.
1540
01:12:16,027 --> 01:12:18,464
- Hi, how you doing?
- Hello. Meet my old lady.
1541
01:12:18,638 --> 01:12:19,639
Hi, how you doing, young lady?
1542
01:12:19,813 --> 01:12:21,162
I'm doing great.
1543
01:12:21,467 --> 01:12:22,338
Man, I appreciate everything
you're doing, man.
1544
01:12:22,512 --> 01:12:23,730
Thank you.
1545
01:12:23,904 --> 01:12:24,992
Thank you, sir,
for all your service.
1546
01:12:25,166 --> 01:12:26,080
Lewis: Thank you.
How you doing?
1547
01:12:26,254 --> 01:12:27,517
Very well today, thank you.
1548
01:12:27,908 --> 01:12:29,345
- What a pleasant surprise.
- Good to see you.
1549
01:12:29,519 --> 01:12:31,303
- You're my hero.
- Well, thank you, brother.
1550
01:12:31,564 --> 01:12:33,000
I just want to thank you
for all your service.
1551
01:12:33,174 --> 01:12:34,306
- Thank you.
- For all these years.
1552
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:35,525
We really look up to you.
1553
01:12:35,742 --> 01:12:37,004
Female producer:
What is it like
1554
01:12:37,178 --> 01:12:38,223
walking through an airport
with him?
1555
01:12:39,442 --> 01:12:41,531
- Tedious.
- [laughs]
1556
01:12:41,748 --> 01:12:43,446
How you doing?
Fine, good to see you.
1557
01:12:43,620 --> 01:12:44,882
- Okay.
- I'm fine.
1558
01:12:45,056 --> 01:12:46,187
You doing okay?
1559
01:12:46,362 --> 01:12:47,624
Sometimes it might
take 30 minutes.
1560
01:12:47,798 --> 01:12:49,103
It could take an hour
and 30 minutes.
1561
01:12:49,277 --> 01:12:50,235
Hello. How are you
doing this morning?
1562
01:12:50,409 --> 01:12:51,541
Hello, so nice to meet you.
1563
01:12:51,715 --> 01:12:52,803
- Good to meet you.
- Thank you.
1564
01:12:53,238 --> 01:12:55,762
I've had to impersonate
John a number of times,
1565
01:12:56,415 --> 01:12:59,375
and the reason is,
is that you'll have...
1566
01:12:59,549 --> 01:13:01,768
I'll have a whole family
come up.
1567
01:13:01,942 --> 01:13:03,727
[laughing]
1568
01:13:03,901 --> 01:13:05,119
And they're saying,
1569
01:13:05,293 --> 01:13:07,383
"Johnny, this is John Lewis,"
1570
01:13:07,557 --> 01:13:10,560
and I'm like... I don't want
to embarrass the parents.
1571
01:13:10,734 --> 01:13:14,215
I don't want to... so I've
gotten a lot of pictures taken
1572
01:13:14,390 --> 01:13:17,044
with people just assuming
that I was John Lewis.
1573
01:13:17,218 --> 01:13:18,350
But you know what?
1574
01:13:19,264 --> 01:13:21,745
I am so glad that
1575
01:13:22,441 --> 01:13:24,095
they mistake me for a great man.
1576
01:13:25,618 --> 01:13:28,752
One time we were in Ghana
in the marketplace.
1577
01:13:28,926 --> 01:13:30,188
"John Lewis!"
1578
01:13:30,362 --> 01:13:31,581
What an honor
to be in front of you.
1579
01:13:31,755 --> 01:13:32,886
Lewis: Well, it's good
to see you.
1580
01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:34,410
- Love you.
- You're wonderful.
1581
01:13:34,584 --> 01:13:36,107
- Thank you, girl.
- It's such an honor.
1582
01:13:36,324 --> 01:13:38,022
Cab drivers in Egypt.
1583
01:13:38,196 --> 01:13:39,676
Collins: Okay, one, two, three.
1584
01:13:42,679 --> 01:13:45,116
Just... he always been busy.
1585
01:13:49,512 --> 01:13:51,078
The afternoon's really packed,
1586
01:13:51,252 --> 01:13:52,863
so we're gonna move quickly
through those meetings.
1587
01:13:53,037 --> 01:13:55,996
You've got Dov Wilker.
You remember him from AJC.
1588
01:13:56,170 --> 01:13:57,520
Woman: Yes, sir.
1589
01:13:58,477 --> 01:13:59,391
Lewis: Okay.
1590
01:13:59,652 --> 01:14:01,219
Sorry keeping you.
1591
01:14:01,567 --> 01:14:03,482
Man 1:
We would really appreciate
1592
01:14:03,656 --> 01:14:06,311
if you would consider
drafting a letter
1593
01:14:06,485 --> 01:14:08,269
- to the Georgia delegation...
- Mm-hmm.
1594
01:14:08,574 --> 01:14:10,533
to support the project.
1595
01:14:10,707 --> 01:14:12,056
Mm-hmm.
1596
01:14:12,230 --> 01:14:13,710
Man 2: I'm a first-generation
immigrant.
1597
01:14:14,275 --> 01:14:16,364
The system needs
to be developed in a way
1598
01:14:16,539 --> 01:14:18,149
where it is helpful
1599
01:14:18,323 --> 01:14:19,890
for those who are trying
to follow the system.
1600
01:14:20,064 --> 01:14:21,065
Lewis: Mm-hmm.
1601
01:14:21,282 --> 01:14:22,283
Okay.
1602
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:23,850
Make yourself comfortable.
1603
01:14:24,024 --> 01:14:26,549
Who else could advocate
better for veterans
1604
01:14:26,723 --> 01:14:28,986
when the nurses
who are sitting right there
1605
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:30,944
at the bedsides
taking care of them?
1606
01:14:31,118 --> 01:14:32,206
Lewis:
I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
1607
01:14:32,380 --> 01:14:33,556
No problem, that's fine.
1608
01:14:33,730 --> 01:14:34,557
- How you doing?
- Good to see you.
1609
01:14:34,731 --> 01:14:35,775
Good to see you.
1610
01:14:36,559 --> 01:14:37,821
I noticed most of you
are drinking water.
1611
01:14:37,995 --> 01:14:39,257
We have something
a little stronger.
1612
01:14:39,431 --> 01:14:40,563
- We have...
- [laughter]
1613
01:14:40,867 --> 01:14:43,435
We have Coca-Cola.
We have tea.
1614
01:14:44,044 --> 01:14:46,960
We're hoping through your
oversight committee
1615
01:14:47,221 --> 01:14:50,486
that you could bring
our CEO of AT&T,
1616
01:14:50,660 --> 01:14:52,139
one of our largest employers,
1617
01:14:52,313 --> 01:14:53,967
Randall Stephenson,
before your committee.
1618
01:14:54,141 --> 01:14:55,099
Lewis: Okay.
1619
01:14:55,447 --> 01:14:58,450
He promised 7,000 new jobs
1620
01:14:58,668 --> 01:15:00,408
- if they pass the tax bill.
- Lewis: Okay.
1621
01:15:01,409 --> 01:15:02,976
Man: So, we are asking
1622
01:15:03,150 --> 01:15:05,457
for an investigation
into these major corporations
1623
01:15:05,631 --> 01:15:08,678
and what have they done
with the tax breaks.
1624
01:15:08,895 --> 01:15:10,984
You are my representative,
so I'm coming to you,
1625
01:15:11,158 --> 01:15:14,553
so you could try to help us
to start this impeachment.
1626
01:15:14,727 --> 01:15:16,207
We have to save our democracy.
1627
01:15:16,381 --> 01:15:17,904
Woman: Yes, we have to.
1628
01:15:18,078 --> 01:15:21,342
And sometimes I feel like
we're gonna lose it.
1629
01:15:22,126 --> 01:15:25,608
I think by winning the majority
back in the House,
1630
01:15:26,434 --> 01:15:31,222
we... as Nancy Pelosi said,
the speaker,
1631
01:15:31,701 --> 01:15:33,006
whatever we do,
1632
01:15:33,224 --> 01:15:36,270
we're going to do it
in a systematic way.
1633
01:15:36,749 --> 01:15:38,011
So, stand by, so.
1634
01:15:38,185 --> 01:15:39,273
Lewis:
You know it's been a long day.
1635
01:15:39,447 --> 01:15:40,536
- I know.
- There you go.
1636
01:15:40,710 --> 01:15:42,102
Hold on. You frame him up.
1637
01:15:42,276 --> 01:15:43,321
Man: Want to come closer,
or are you good?
1638
01:15:43,495 --> 01:15:44,888
No, I'm good.
1639
01:15:45,410 --> 01:15:47,064
I just want David to be still,
stop flying like a chicken.
1640
01:15:47,238 --> 01:15:48,935
- [woman laughs]
- Stop flying like a chicken?
1641
01:15:49,109 --> 01:15:50,154
No, I'm playing with you now.
1642
01:15:50,328 --> 01:15:51,677
No, I got you, I got you.
1643
01:15:51,851 --> 01:15:52,852
Man: Keep that smile.
Keep that energy.
1644
01:15:53,287 --> 01:15:54,724
Y'all take care.
Thank you for coming.
1645
01:15:54,898 --> 01:15:56,682
- Buh-bye. Buh-bye.
- Bye.
1646
01:15:57,770 --> 01:15:58,858
- Lewis: Rachelle?
- Yes, sir?
1647
01:15:59,032 --> 01:16:00,512
- Where's Mike?
- They're coming.
1648
01:16:00,773 --> 01:16:02,079
They're with Jared.
1649
01:16:02,253 --> 01:16:03,297
Rachelle O'Neil:
In the district office
1650
01:16:03,471 --> 01:16:05,169
it's just... it's more light,
1651
01:16:05,343 --> 01:16:08,346
so we get a jovial,
funny... we get the lighter
1652
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:10,522
John Lewis
in the district office.
1653
01:16:10,827 --> 01:16:12,655
It was the congressman's
birthday,
1654
01:16:12,829 --> 01:16:16,354
and we had had a birthday lunch
and birthday cake.
1655
01:16:16,572 --> 01:16:18,008
- No, I'm full.
- [music playing]
1656
01:16:18,182 --> 01:16:19,749
I'm so full, I can't even move.
1657
01:16:20,314 --> 01:16:21,533
O'Neil: We get a little loopy, I guess,
1658
01:16:21,707 --> 01:16:23,448
from all the sugar.
1659
01:16:23,622 --> 01:16:24,928
- Woman: ♪ I'm happy ♪
- ♪ Come along ♪
1660
01:16:25,102 --> 01:16:26,799
- ♪ If you feel ♪
- [laughter]
1661
01:16:26,973 --> 01:16:27,583
- Woman: Go, Congressman.
- ♪ Without a roof ♪
1662
01:16:27,757 --> 01:16:29,410
And I posted it.
1663
01:16:30,107 --> 01:16:31,456
Woman: Now, break it down.
1664
01:16:31,848 --> 01:16:33,545
This my song.
1665
01:16:35,634 --> 01:16:37,418
O'Neil: The next day,
I was getting calls
1666
01:16:37,593 --> 01:16:40,247
from everyone
saying it had gone viral.
1667
01:16:40,421 --> 01:16:41,858
I didn't know
what "gone viral" meant.
1668
01:16:42,032 --> 01:16:43,337
This has nothing to do
with civil rights.
1669
01:16:43,511 --> 01:16:44,817
It has everything to do with
1670
01:16:44,991 --> 01:16:46,689
a little bit of,
shall we say, mojo?
1671
01:16:46,863 --> 01:16:48,473
O'Neil: There was just so much going on in the country
1672
01:16:48,647 --> 01:16:49,561
at the time.
1673
01:16:49,735 --> 01:16:52,042
It made people happy, literally.
1674
01:16:52,782 --> 01:16:54,610
Oh, he loves to dance!
1675
01:16:54,784 --> 01:16:56,263
Did you see the video?
1676
01:16:56,437 --> 01:16:57,743
Okay.
1677
01:16:58,875 --> 01:17:00,006
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
1678
01:17:00,180 --> 01:17:01,965
♪ Clap along if you feel ♪
1679
01:17:02,139 --> 01:17:04,228
♪ Like that's what
You want to do ♪
1680
01:17:24,161 --> 01:17:25,858
Lewis:
Oh, the light just went on.
1681
01:17:28,034 --> 01:17:30,689
My mother would not
be happy with me
1682
01:17:30,863 --> 01:17:33,344
having you to see this junky,
1683
01:17:33,518 --> 01:17:35,781
disorganized place.
1684
01:17:36,303 --> 01:17:38,088
So that's my collection
of chickens.
1685
01:17:38,828 --> 01:17:40,525
This birdhouse
came from Atlanta,
1686
01:17:40,699 --> 01:17:42,483
and I made it a chicken house.
1687
01:17:42,962 --> 01:17:44,790
So, you see
the little chicks in there.
1688
01:17:45,922 --> 01:17:48,881
My great-grandfather,
Frank Carter,
1689
01:17:49,273 --> 01:17:50,927
was a wonderful man.
1690
01:17:52,058 --> 01:17:56,367
This is a picture with my
late friend Julian Bond.
1691
01:17:56,759 --> 01:17:59,544
This picture was taken
in the delta of Mississippi.
1692
01:18:00,371 --> 01:18:02,286
We were doing
voter registration,
1693
01:18:02,852 --> 01:18:04,723
urging people to get registered.
1694
01:18:04,897 --> 01:18:08,988
It was so dangerous to attempt
to get registered to vote.
1695
01:18:09,902 --> 01:18:12,731
["Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band]
1696
01:18:12,905 --> 01:18:18,606
♪ Will the circle be unbroken ♪
1697
01:18:18,781 --> 01:18:24,134
♪ By and by, Lord, by and by ♪
1698
01:18:24,438 --> 01:18:25,962
Lewis:
The Voter Education Project
1699
01:18:26,179 --> 01:18:28,225
is working in 11 states
in the South.
1700
01:18:28,399 --> 01:18:32,098
We are working in states
from Virginia to Texas.
1701
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:37,103
Our message to blacks
in Mississippi is simple.
1702
01:18:38,017 --> 01:18:39,149
Only you
1703
01:18:39,889 --> 01:18:41,891
can make the necessary choices
1704
01:18:42,195 --> 01:18:44,458
about what
your destiny will be.
1705
01:18:45,503 --> 01:18:46,809
- Mr. Lewis.
- How you doing?
1706
01:18:46,983 --> 01:18:49,159
[overlapping chatter]
1707
01:18:49,333 --> 01:18:51,117
- Good to see you.
- Representative Julian Bond.
1708
01:18:51,291 --> 01:18:52,945
- I know him.
- All right.
1709
01:18:53,119 --> 01:18:54,686
How you doing?
1710
01:18:54,947 --> 01:18:58,168
[indistinct chatter]
1711
01:18:58,559 --> 01:18:59,865
Julian Bond: Have you registered
to vote yet?
1712
01:19:00,039 --> 01:19:01,388
- No.
- No?
1713
01:19:01,606 --> 01:19:02,563
Man: We're going to take
some of your neighbors
1714
01:19:02,738 --> 01:19:04,304
down in the morning at 10:00.
1715
01:19:04,522 --> 01:19:06,002
- Woman: Right, this one.
- Someone will pick you up,
1716
01:19:06,176 --> 01:19:07,699
take you to the county
courthouse, and bring you back.
1717
01:19:07,873 --> 01:19:09,396
It's the easiest thing
in the world.
1718
01:19:09,614 --> 01:19:11,659
Lewis: It's not enough
just to register,
1719
01:19:11,834 --> 01:19:13,966
but on election day,
we must vote.
1720
01:19:14,445 --> 01:19:17,622
We must have some control
over our own political destiny.
1721
01:19:18,405 --> 01:19:22,366
In Selma, they had only
about 2.1% of the black people
1722
01:19:22,540 --> 01:19:26,239
of voting age
registered in 1965.
1723
01:19:27,763 --> 01:19:29,547
Today in Selma,
1724
01:19:30,156 --> 01:19:32,289
more than 30 percent
of the blacks of voting age
1725
01:19:32,463 --> 01:19:33,856
are registered to vote.
1726
01:19:34,682 --> 01:19:36,206
Female reporter:
Do you remember
1727
01:19:36,380 --> 01:19:38,425
when you decided
to run for office?
1728
01:19:39,078 --> 01:19:42,778
Lewis: I was in
Robert Kennedys' room
1729
01:19:42,952 --> 01:19:46,912
when he was murdered
in Los Angeles,
1730
01:19:47,391 --> 01:19:50,481
and I said, "Maybe, maybe
I should run for something,"
1731
01:19:50,655 --> 01:19:52,265
and I decided to run,
1732
01:19:52,613 --> 01:19:53,614
and my first race,
1733
01:19:53,789 --> 01:19:55,007
that was not that successful.
1734
01:19:55,181 --> 01:19:56,661
- Mm-hmm.
- I went to Washington
1735
01:19:57,009 --> 01:19:59,229
and worked with President
Carter for three years
1736
01:19:59,403 --> 01:20:00,578
and came back
1737
01:20:01,187 --> 01:20:04,060
and ran for a city council seat in Atlanta.
1738
01:20:04,538 --> 01:20:07,150
When the congressional office came open, I ran.
1739
01:20:07,628 --> 01:20:09,630
Male reporter:
Julian Bond and John Lewis,
1740
01:20:10,066 --> 01:20:12,285
friends for 25 years,
1741
01:20:12,590 --> 01:20:15,549
now running against each other
for the same seat in Congress.
1742
01:20:15,811 --> 01:20:17,421
So how you doing today?
Good to see you.
1743
01:20:17,595 --> 01:20:19,336
Appreciate your help.
Good to see you.
1744
01:20:19,510 --> 01:20:21,338
Lewis:
It's the highest possibility
1745
01:20:21,555 --> 01:20:23,731
for a black elected official
that would like to move up,
1746
01:20:23,906 --> 01:20:26,430
and I think most politicians
would like to move up.
1747
01:20:26,604 --> 01:20:29,433
I'm gonna win, but we're
still gonna be good friends.
1748
01:20:29,607 --> 01:20:31,130
Male reporter:
The runoff has been nasty.
1749
01:20:31,304 --> 01:20:32,958
There were no serious
issue differences
1750
01:20:33,132 --> 01:20:35,004
between the two
until Lewis made one.
1751
01:20:35,265 --> 01:20:36,527
He took a drug test
1752
01:20:36,788 --> 01:20:38,746
and challenged Bond
to do the same.
1753
01:20:38,964 --> 01:20:41,097
These tests are wrong,
they're wrong in the workplace,
1754
01:20:41,401 --> 01:20:42,663
and they're wrong
in your attempt
1755
01:20:42,838 --> 01:20:44,578
to pander to the fears
of the voters
1756
01:20:44,752 --> 01:20:46,102
of the fifth
congressional district.
1757
01:20:46,363 --> 01:20:47,625
Male reporter:
Bond called the drug test
1758
01:20:47,799 --> 01:20:49,061
a cheap political trick,
1759
01:20:49,235 --> 01:20:50,889
demagoguery, McCarthyism.
1760
01:20:51,194 --> 01:20:52,499
I've known you for 25 years.
1761
01:20:52,673 --> 01:20:54,762
Our families went
to Disneyland together.
1762
01:20:54,937 --> 01:20:56,634
We've been to South Africa
together.
1763
01:20:56,808 --> 01:20:58,244
We've marched together.
We've picketed together.
1764
01:20:58,418 --> 01:20:59,855
I've never heard you say
1765
01:21:00,072 --> 01:21:01,204
some of the things
you've said about me this year.
1766
01:21:02,422 --> 01:21:04,207
Male reporter:
John Lewis voted today
1767
01:21:04,381 --> 01:21:06,731
a few blocks from where
Julian Bond cast his ballot.
1768
01:21:07,079 --> 01:21:09,386
It was a stunning
political upset.
1769
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,692
Atlanta City
Councilman John Lewis
1770
01:21:11,867 --> 01:21:13,912
defeated State Senator
Julian Bond.
1771
01:21:14,086 --> 01:21:15,261
Bryant Gumbel: John Lewis,
congratulations.
1772
01:21:15,435 --> 01:21:16,654
Lewis: Thank you.
1773
01:21:16,828 --> 01:21:18,264
Gumbel:
You gained the nomination.
1774
01:21:18,743 --> 01:21:20,005
Was it worth the price, the stress on your friendship?
1775
01:21:20,179 --> 01:21:22,660
Well, this race
was a very difficult race.
1776
01:21:22,834 --> 01:21:25,532
Julian is a very good
and close friend.
1777
01:21:25,706 --> 01:21:27,839
We were friends
long before this campaign,
1778
01:21:28,013 --> 01:21:29,710
and we will continue
to be friends.
1779
01:21:29,972 --> 01:21:31,712
Julian Bond, do you still see
1780
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:33,932
John Lewis
as you did before this began?
1781
01:21:34,106 --> 01:21:35,673
Oh, no, I couldn't say that.
1782
01:21:36,065 --> 01:21:37,457
There's been a real strain
1783
01:21:37,631 --> 01:21:39,111
put on this relationship
between the two of us,
1784
01:21:39,285 --> 01:21:40,939
but you know,
time is a great healer,
1785
01:21:41,113 --> 01:21:43,594
and I'm sure in time
the wounds will heal.
1786
01:21:44,029 --> 01:21:45,509
You had a big lead,
1787
01:21:45,726 --> 01:21:47,032
and you were supposed
to have won this election.
1788
01:21:47,206 --> 01:21:48,991
Why didn't you wind up
with more votes?
1789
01:21:49,730 --> 01:21:52,081
- He got more votes than I did.
- Gumbel: Why?
1790
01:21:52,603 --> 01:21:54,866
Well, it's pretty obvious
from the returns that
1791
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,739
while black voters favored me
by a pretty substantial margin,
1792
01:21:58,914 --> 01:22:02,308
about 60-40, white voters
favored him about 80-20,
1793
01:22:02,482 --> 01:22:04,136
and that was
the deciding factor.
1794
01:22:04,310 --> 01:22:05,790
Here you were, an activist
on the front line
1795
01:22:05,964 --> 01:22:07,400
of the movement in the 1960s.
1796
01:22:07,574 --> 01:22:09,576
Now you're a bureaucrat,
pardon me, in Washington,
1797
01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:11,448
working in an important agency,
1798
01:22:11,622 --> 01:22:13,319
but nonetheless, you've become
part of the establishment.
1799
01:22:13,493 --> 01:22:17,062
Well, I see my role today
and I see the role of others
1800
01:22:17,236 --> 01:22:19,630
that are part of government
1801
01:22:19,935 --> 01:22:22,633
as continuing
that movement of the '60s.
1802
01:22:22,807 --> 01:22:24,374
Interviewer: The battleground
has shifted, you're saying,
1803
01:22:24,548 --> 01:22:26,071
to Washington
and these other areas.
1804
01:22:26,245 --> 01:22:30,554
Well, it is no longer
the drama in the streets.
1805
01:22:30,728 --> 01:22:33,383
It is in Washington,
it is in City Hall,
1806
01:22:33,687 --> 01:22:35,689
the state capitols
around the South
1807
01:22:35,863 --> 01:22:37,082
and around this country.
1808
01:22:37,561 --> 01:22:39,041
You know, being on the outside,
I had to struggle.
1809
01:22:39,215 --> 01:22:40,303
I had to fight.
1810
01:22:40,564 --> 01:22:42,218
But now I'm fighting
from within.
1811
01:22:42,827 --> 01:22:44,524
- I have not looked back since.
- Woman: Mm-hmm.
1812
01:22:45,351 --> 01:22:47,963
It's a calling, to serve.
1813
01:22:49,660 --> 01:22:52,576
There's nothing wrong with
putting poor people to work,
1814
01:22:52,750 --> 01:22:55,448
providing job training
and daycare.
1815
01:22:55,840 --> 01:22:59,191
People like to think of him
as a civil rights icon.
1816
01:22:59,365 --> 01:23:00,801
They don't like to think of him
1817
01:23:00,976 --> 01:23:02,586
as a legislator.
1818
01:23:02,760 --> 01:23:05,241
Lewis: Today we are considering
a fair housing measure
1819
01:23:05,415 --> 01:23:08,592
which not only protects
our nation's minorities,
1820
01:23:08,766 --> 01:23:11,334
but it protects the needs
of those with disabilities
1821
01:23:11,508 --> 01:23:13,249
and families with children.
1822
01:23:13,684 --> 01:23:15,077
Ronald Reagan: Every senator
and representative
1823
01:23:15,251 --> 01:23:16,948
standing up here
with me today
1824
01:23:17,122 --> 01:23:19,255
played an important role
1825
01:23:19,559 --> 01:23:22,040
in the passage of this landmark
civil rights bill,
1826
01:23:22,214 --> 01:23:23,520
and I want to mention
1827
01:23:23,694 --> 01:23:26,610
especially Representative
John Lewis.
1828
01:23:26,784 --> 01:23:30,135
Lewis: You are voting
for a declaration of war.
1829
01:23:30,309 --> 01:23:32,529
The American people
don't want war.
1830
01:23:32,703 --> 01:23:34,270
How long do we have to wait
1831
01:23:34,444 --> 01:23:36,750
before we decide
to ban assault weapons?
1832
01:23:37,142 --> 01:23:40,798
We have another opportunity to bring more of our citizens
1833
01:23:40,972 --> 01:23:42,278
into political participation.
1834
01:23:43,279 --> 01:23:45,020
Bill Clinton:
There were offenses
1835
01:23:45,194 --> 01:23:47,370
put in the criminal code that carried the death penalty,
1836
01:23:47,544 --> 01:23:49,328
and he was against
the death penalty
1837
01:23:49,502 --> 01:23:51,113
as a matter of conscience,
1838
01:23:51,287 --> 01:23:53,463
and I must say,
the older I've gotten,
1839
01:23:53,637 --> 01:23:55,856
the closer I've come
to his position,
1840
01:23:56,509 --> 01:23:59,121
and maybe what we need
is a little more
1841
01:23:59,469 --> 01:24:01,166
reconciliation and rebuilding.
1842
01:24:02,254 --> 01:24:03,864
Lewis: American workers
are suffering.
1843
01:24:04,039 --> 01:24:05,301
They're working hard,
1844
01:24:05,475 --> 01:24:07,346
and they're still
living in poverty.
1845
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:08,869
That's not right.
1846
01:24:09,783 --> 01:24:12,873
We should have put an end
to Don't Ask, Don't Tell
1847
01:24:13,222 --> 01:24:14,527
long ago.
1848
01:24:14,919 --> 01:24:17,226
We're going to pass
national healthcare.
1849
01:24:17,487 --> 01:24:19,010
We must stop this cycle
1850
01:24:19,184 --> 01:24:22,709
from being repeated
over and over again.
1851
01:24:24,015 --> 01:24:26,496
He challenges the conscience
of the Congress
1852
01:24:26,670 --> 01:24:28,802
every day that he is here.
1853
01:24:28,976 --> 01:24:30,935
We're calling on
the leadership of the House
1854
01:24:31,109 --> 01:24:34,591
to bring common-sense
gun control legislation
1855
01:24:34,765 --> 01:24:35,940
to the House floor.
1856
01:24:36,201 --> 01:24:37,246
Let us vote!
1857
01:24:37,724 --> 01:24:39,204
We came here to do our job!
1858
01:24:39,378 --> 01:24:40,771
We came here to work!
1859
01:24:41,076 --> 01:24:43,774
We will occupy this floor.
1860
01:24:44,427 --> 01:24:46,907
Rashida Tlaib: And he sat
on the House floor
1861
01:24:47,082 --> 01:24:48,735
holding hands
with other members,
1862
01:24:48,909 --> 01:24:50,041
and I thought to myself,
1863
01:24:50,215 --> 01:24:51,651
"That's exactly
what I would do."
1864
01:24:51,825 --> 01:24:53,958
He probably didn't realize
this girl, you know,
1865
01:24:54,132 --> 01:24:55,916
sitting in her living room
in southwest Detroit
1866
01:24:56,091 --> 01:24:58,963
looking at the screen
of this legendary man,
1867
01:24:59,398 --> 01:25:01,052
it was pretty
incredibly inspiring,
1868
01:25:01,226 --> 01:25:02,923
and then later on,
now I'm serving with him.
1869
01:25:03,098 --> 01:25:04,099
It's kind of surreal.
1870
01:25:04,490 --> 01:25:05,709
When Donald Trump came in
1871
01:25:05,883 --> 01:25:07,058
and tried to take away
healthcare,
1872
01:25:07,232 --> 01:25:08,494
I called John Lewis up,
and I said,
1873
01:25:08,668 --> 01:25:10,235
"I don't know what to do,
but can we just
1874
01:25:10,409 --> 01:25:12,498
open up Facebook
and have a conversation?"
1875
01:25:12,759 --> 01:25:14,892
Sometimes, you know,
by sitting in or sitting down,
1876
01:25:15,066 --> 01:25:16,459
you're really standing up.
1877
01:25:16,633 --> 01:25:18,025
Booker:
And because of him,
1878
01:25:18,243 --> 01:25:20,115
five, ten, twenty,
1879
01:25:20,376 --> 01:25:22,813
hundreds of people
show up to sit with us
1880
01:25:22,987 --> 01:25:25,772
and have a conversation about
why healthcare is so important.
1881
01:25:26,164 --> 01:25:28,819
We were in a stalemate
1882
01:25:28,993 --> 01:25:31,735
regarding the building
of the wall,
1883
01:25:32,039 --> 01:25:34,346
that we went to
the United States Senate,
1884
01:25:35,042 --> 01:25:36,696
and we did a sit-in,
1885
01:25:37,349 --> 01:25:38,872
and I remember
1886
01:25:39,046 --> 01:25:41,353
myself and some of my other
freshman colleagues
1887
01:25:41,527 --> 01:25:46,750
wanting to yell out
from the sides, "Shame on you,"
1888
01:25:46,924 --> 01:25:49,405
and Congressman Lewis said,
1889
01:25:50,188 --> 01:25:51,755
"That's not how we do this."
1890
01:25:52,582 --> 01:25:55,411
And I mean, you could
have heard a pin drop.
1891
01:25:55,585 --> 01:25:58,718
John Lewis introduced
the legislation in 1988
1892
01:25:58,892 --> 01:26:01,634
for the African-American
Culture and History Museum.
1893
01:26:01,895 --> 01:26:04,681
So, John was always trying
to tell the story
1894
01:26:04,855 --> 01:26:07,249
of African-Americans
in this country
1895
01:26:07,423 --> 01:26:09,555
and the imperativeness
1896
01:26:09,729 --> 01:26:12,558
of treating people
with dignity and equality.
1897
01:26:14,299 --> 01:26:16,954
Stacey Abrams: You cannot
replace a John Lewis
1898
01:26:17,694 --> 01:26:19,391
because it is
a matter of strategy,
1899
01:26:19,565 --> 01:26:22,786
someone who's
cultivated a story
1900
01:26:23,265 --> 01:26:25,441
to remind us
that our past is not passed.
1901
01:26:29,096 --> 01:26:30,489
This is something
you know a lot about,
1902
01:26:30,663 --> 01:26:32,839
so I wanted to put this
front and center.
1903
01:26:34,624 --> 01:26:36,626
And you see Hosea
holding his nose.
1904
01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,411
He knew they were getting ready
to use the tear gas.
1905
01:26:39,585 --> 01:26:42,066
- Oh, that's what he was doing.
- Mm-hmm.
1906
01:26:42,501 --> 01:26:43,676
Lonnie Bunch:
Did you ever despair?
1907
01:26:43,850 --> 01:26:44,764
Lewis: No.
1908
01:26:44,982 --> 01:26:46,288
You couldn't.
1909
01:26:46,679 --> 01:26:49,204
You have to be hopeful.
You have to be optimistic.
1910
01:26:49,552 --> 01:26:51,206
You get knocked down, and...
1911
01:26:52,207 --> 01:26:53,730
you get up,
1912
01:26:53,904 --> 01:26:54,861
keep going.
1913
01:26:59,126 --> 01:27:01,128
Lewis: The Monday after Bloody Sunday,
1914
01:27:01,955 --> 01:27:04,654
after we were beaten in Selma,
1915
01:27:05,089 --> 01:27:07,874
Dr. King came to my hospital
bedside and said,
1916
01:27:08,048 --> 01:27:09,485
"John, don't worry.
1917
01:27:10,355 --> 01:27:13,880
I issued a call
for religious leaders to come."
1918
01:27:15,795 --> 01:27:17,797
Man: The events in Selma have
been brought to a climax
1919
01:27:17,971 --> 01:27:20,887
by a nighttime attack
on a white Boston minister
1920
01:27:21,061 --> 01:27:21,888
by white men.
1921
01:27:22,062 --> 01:27:23,760
He died two days later.
1922
01:27:24,761 --> 01:27:27,590
Lewis: President Lyndon Johnson
spoke to the nation.
1923
01:27:28,591 --> 01:27:30,680
It's not just Negros,
1924
01:27:31,289 --> 01:27:33,073
but really, it's all of us
1925
01:27:34,161 --> 01:27:36,338
who must overcome
1926
01:27:36,512 --> 01:27:41,647
the crippling legacy
of bigotry and injustice,
1927
01:27:42,648 --> 01:27:45,390
and we shall overcome.
1928
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,176
Lewis: First time
an American president
1929
01:27:50,003 --> 01:27:53,833
quoted the words of the theme
song of the movement.
1930
01:27:54,486 --> 01:27:58,360
I was in the hospital from
Sunday until about an hour ago.
1931
01:27:59,012 --> 01:28:01,885
I don't know if I will
be able to participate
1932
01:28:02,146 --> 01:28:03,843
in the march today,
1933
01:28:04,714 --> 01:28:06,106
but it is my feeling
1934
01:28:07,064 --> 01:28:08,935
that people
all over this country,
1935
01:28:09,109 --> 01:28:11,373
but particularly the people
right here in Alabama,
1936
01:28:11,547 --> 01:28:12,722
right here in Selma,
1937
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:16,682
should continue to march
toward Montgomery.
1938
01:28:17,422 --> 01:28:19,772
All: ♪ Turn me round,
oh, turn me round ♪
1939
01:28:19,946 --> 01:28:21,600
♪ Oh, turn me round ♪
1940
01:28:21,774 --> 01:28:24,734
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody
turn me round ♪
1941
01:28:24,995 --> 01:28:28,085
♪ I'm gonna keep on a-walking, keep on a-talking ♪
1942
01:28:28,259 --> 01:28:30,870
- ♪ Walking into freedom land ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
1943
01:28:31,044 --> 01:28:35,353
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody
Turn me around ♪
1944
01:28:35,527 --> 01:28:38,748
♪ Turn me around,
Turn me around ♪
1945
01:28:38,922 --> 01:28:42,708
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody
Turn me around ♪
1946
01:28:42,882 --> 01:28:47,322
♪ I just keep on a-walking,
Keep on a-talking ♪
1947
01:28:47,496 --> 01:28:50,760
♪ Marching on to freedom land ♪
1948
01:28:50,934 --> 01:28:53,458
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody
Turn me around ♪
1949
01:28:53,763 --> 01:28:56,592
♪ Can't let them
Turn me around, oh Lord ♪
1950
01:28:56,766 --> 01:28:58,898
- ♪ Turn me around ♪
- ♪ Turn me around ♪
1951
01:28:59,159 --> 01:29:03,033
♪ Ain't gonna let nobody
turn me around ♪
1952
01:29:03,207 --> 01:29:07,211
♪ I just keep on a-walking
Oh, I keep on a-moving... ♪
1953
01:29:07,385 --> 01:29:09,779
I'll have great trials
and tribulations,
1954
01:29:09,953 --> 01:29:13,260
but I said when we go across
the city line tomorrow,
1955
01:29:13,435 --> 01:29:15,350
we have a new song
that we're going to sing,
1956
01:29:15,611 --> 01:29:16,786
"We Have Overcome."
1957
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:17,830
[cheering]
1958
01:29:18,004 --> 01:29:19,658
We were not afraid.
1959
01:29:21,530 --> 01:29:23,009
♪ Turn me around ♪
1960
01:29:23,183 --> 01:29:24,794
♪ You know,
I keep on a-walking ♪
1961
01:29:25,142 --> 01:29:27,623
♪ I just keep on a-talking ♪
1962
01:29:27,797 --> 01:29:29,973
♪ Marching on
To freedom land ♪
1963
01:29:30,147 --> 01:29:32,541
Male anchor: President Johnson
sends to Congress a bill
1964
01:29:32,715 --> 01:29:34,325
to reinforce the right to vote.
1965
01:29:34,499 --> 01:29:36,109
The president signs
an accompanying letter
1966
01:29:36,327 --> 01:29:37,676
to the legislators
1967
01:29:37,850 --> 01:29:39,461
urging swift passage
for the bill
1968
01:29:39,635 --> 01:29:41,985
that would outlaw
discriminatory practices.
1969
01:29:42,159 --> 01:29:44,291
Lewis: We will use the energy
1970
01:29:44,466 --> 01:29:46,772
and the resources
of our organization
1971
01:29:47,294 --> 01:29:49,514
to implement the voting law.
1972
01:29:49,732 --> 01:29:52,387
We are going to the entire
state of Georgia,
1973
01:29:52,648 --> 01:29:54,301
Alabama, Mississippi,
1974
01:29:54,476 --> 01:29:58,088
parts of North Carolina,
to get hundreds and thousands
1975
01:29:58,262 --> 01:29:59,872
and literally millions
of Negro people
1976
01:30:00,046 --> 01:30:02,962
who have been denied
the right to vote that right
1977
01:30:03,136 --> 01:30:04,747
and to quicken the day
1978
01:30:04,921 --> 01:30:08,228
when they will participate
in the democratic process.
1979
01:30:08,620 --> 01:30:10,840
Male anchor: In three years,
more than 62 percent
1980
01:30:11,014 --> 01:30:12,885
of eligible blacks
are registered.
1981
01:30:13,059 --> 01:30:16,585
Mississippi alone increased
registration 800%,
1982
01:30:16,759 --> 01:30:19,283
and this was the beginning
of a political revolution.
1983
01:30:28,074 --> 01:30:30,773
The official inaugural book.
1984
01:30:33,340 --> 01:30:34,646
Female producer:
What did that feel like,
1985
01:30:34,820 --> 01:30:35,908
to see him...
1986
01:30:36,213 --> 01:30:37,649
be elected?
1987
01:30:37,823 --> 01:30:39,129
Lewis: Oh, I cried.
1988
01:30:39,303 --> 01:30:40,783
I cried uncontrollably.
1989
01:30:41,827 --> 01:30:44,047
I jumped so high,
and I started crying.
1990
01:30:44,264 --> 01:30:45,962
I didn't think my feet
were gonna touch the ground.
1991
01:30:46,136 --> 01:30:47,093
I cried.
1992
01:30:48,268 --> 01:30:50,140
I was crying for Dr. King,
1993
01:30:50,314 --> 01:30:52,447
for President Kennedy
and Robert Kennedy,
1994
01:30:54,231 --> 01:30:56,146
my parents and grandparents
and others,
1995
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:57,452
hundreds
and thousands of people
1996
01:30:57,626 --> 01:30:59,062
who didn't live to see this.
1997
01:31:00,716 --> 01:31:02,935
When the inauguration
was over,
1998
01:31:03,370 --> 01:31:05,024
I had a piece of paper.
1999
01:31:05,198 --> 01:31:07,636
I said, "Mr. President,
will you sign something?"
2000
01:31:07,897 --> 01:31:09,289
Well, he wrote on it,
2001
01:31:09,594 --> 01:31:11,683
"It's because of you, John.
2002
01:31:12,118 --> 01:31:13,511
Barack Obama."
2003
01:31:14,077 --> 01:31:16,732
And when I saw him
at the second inauguration,
2004
01:31:18,647 --> 01:31:21,258
he said to me...
and he remembered so well.
2005
01:31:21,998 --> 01:31:24,000
He said, "It's still
because of you, John."
2006
01:31:24,174 --> 01:31:25,871
I said, "Well, thank you,
Mr. President."
2007
01:31:27,394 --> 01:31:30,354
Ooh, like a dream come true
to think about it.
2008
01:31:30,528 --> 01:31:31,877
And what is going on now just...
2009
01:31:32,051 --> 01:31:35,141
Oh, make me feel
like crying again.
2010
01:31:37,579 --> 01:31:39,798
They want everybody to vote.
2011
01:31:40,495 --> 01:31:42,322
I don't want everybody to vote.
2012
01:31:42,714 --> 01:31:45,543
Elections are not won
by a majority of people.
2013
01:31:45,717 --> 01:31:47,850
They never have been from
the beginning of our country,
2014
01:31:48,024 --> 01:31:49,591
and they are not now.
2015
01:31:49,765 --> 01:31:51,636
As a matter of fact,
our leverage in the elections,
2016
01:31:51,810 --> 01:31:55,161
quite candidly, goes up as
the voting populace goes down.
2017
01:31:56,032 --> 01:31:58,643
Our democracy
is under attack,
2018
01:31:58,904 --> 01:32:00,297
and it's under attack in a way
2019
01:32:00,471 --> 01:32:02,081
that we have not seen for...
2020
01:32:02,647 --> 01:32:03,996
50 years.
2021
01:32:16,487 --> 01:32:18,707
Today I come
with a heavy heart,
2022
01:32:19,359 --> 01:32:22,754
deeply concerned about
the future of our democracy.
2023
01:32:23,059 --> 01:32:24,582
The people have a right to know
2024
01:32:24,756 --> 01:32:26,236
whether they can
put their faith
2025
01:32:26,410 --> 01:32:29,500
and trust in the outcome
of our election.
2026
01:32:31,197 --> 01:32:34,287
Some of those old battles
that many of us thought
2027
01:32:34,549 --> 01:32:36,420
had been fought and won,
2028
01:32:36,638 --> 01:32:38,030
we have to re-engage.
2029
01:32:38,248 --> 01:32:40,250
This is not a time for despair.
2030
01:32:40,424 --> 01:32:42,208
This is a time for action,
2031
01:32:42,382 --> 01:32:44,776
and that's what I learned
from John Lewis.
2032
01:32:45,647 --> 01:32:48,432
[dramatic music]
2033
01:32:52,392 --> 01:32:54,786
Barack Obama: In one afternoon, 50 years ago,
2034
01:32:55,352 --> 01:32:57,615
so much of
our turbulent history,
2035
01:32:58,137 --> 01:33:00,226
all that history
met on this bridge.
2036
01:33:01,184 --> 01:33:02,489
Their faith was questioned.
2037
01:33:03,708 --> 01:33:05,362
Their lives were threatened,
2038
01:33:06,972 --> 01:33:09,061
their patriotism challenged,
2039
01:33:10,323 --> 01:33:12,369
and yet what could
be more American
2040
01:33:12,543 --> 01:33:14,284
than what happened
in this place?
2041
01:33:14,850 --> 01:33:16,591
The Voting Rights Act
2042
01:33:16,765 --> 01:33:18,897
was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy.
2043
01:33:20,072 --> 01:33:21,770
President Reagan
signed its renewal
2044
01:33:21,944 --> 01:33:23,249
when he was in office.
2045
01:33:23,423 --> 01:33:25,338
President George W. Bush
signed its renewal
2046
01:33:25,512 --> 01:33:26,731
when he was in office.
2047
01:33:27,166 --> 01:33:28,864
If we want to honor this day,
2048
01:33:29,038 --> 01:33:32,128
pledge to restore
that law this year!
2049
01:33:32,302 --> 01:33:34,391
That's how we honor
those on this bridge.
2050
01:33:50,015 --> 01:33:52,322
[crowd singing] ♪ This little light of mine ♪
2051
01:33:52,496 --> 01:33:55,194
♪ Yeah, I'm gonna
let it shine ♪
2052
01:33:55,368 --> 01:33:58,154
♪ Everybody say
This little light of mine ♪
2053
01:33:58,415 --> 01:34:01,723
♪ O Lord
I'm gonna let it shine ♪
2054
01:34:01,897 --> 01:34:03,594
♪ Well, let it shine ♪
2055
01:34:03,768 --> 01:34:08,468
♪ Let it shine
Let it shine ♪
2056
01:34:09,687 --> 01:34:11,863
We will create
the beloved community.
2057
01:34:12,168 --> 01:34:15,040
We will redeem
the soul of America.
2058
01:34:15,737 --> 01:34:18,478
There may be some setbacks,
some delays,
2059
01:34:19,828 --> 01:34:21,873
but as a nation
and as a people,
2060
01:34:22,047 --> 01:34:23,614
we will get there,
2061
01:34:24,180 --> 01:34:27,357
and I still believe
we shall overcome.
2062
01:34:35,495 --> 01:34:37,672
["Happy" by Pharrell Williams]
2063
01:34:37,846 --> 01:34:40,892
♪ It might seem crazy
What I'm 'bout to say ♪
2064
01:34:41,066 --> 01:34:44,113
All: We love John!
We love John!
2065
01:34:44,461 --> 01:34:46,028
Male reporter:
Congressman John Lewis
2066
01:34:46,202 --> 01:34:47,725
leads thousands of people
2067
01:34:47,899 --> 01:34:49,292
through the streets
of downtown Atlanta,
2068
01:34:49,466 --> 01:34:51,598
a march for social justice
and women,
2069
01:34:51,773 --> 01:34:53,818
one of hundreds
of similar events
2070
01:34:53,992 --> 01:34:55,428
organized
all around the globe.
2071
01:34:55,646 --> 01:34:57,343
Male reporter 2: Georgia Congressman John Lewis
2072
01:34:57,517 --> 01:34:58,649
will introduce one of
the Best Picture nominees
2073
01:34:58,823 --> 01:35:00,216
during the weekend's Oscars.
2074
01:35:00,607 --> 01:35:03,132
You know, it's good to be out
of Washington sometimes.
2075
01:35:03,306 --> 01:35:06,483
♪ ...if you feel like a room
Without a roof ♪
2076
01:35:06,657 --> 01:35:08,354
Anything you need from me,
you let me know.
2077
01:35:08,528 --> 01:35:10,052
Thank you.
2078
01:35:10,269 --> 01:35:12,271
Man: John Lewis has earned
our lasting gratitude
2079
01:35:12,445 --> 01:35:14,273
for a lifetime
dedicated to the pursuit
2080
01:35:14,447 --> 01:35:16,145
of equality and justice
for all.
2081
01:35:16,406 --> 01:35:18,060
♪ ...what happiness is to you ♪
2082
01:35:18,408 --> 01:35:20,323
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2083
01:35:20,497 --> 01:35:23,892
♪ Clap along if you feel like That's what you wanna do ♪
2084
01:35:25,894 --> 01:35:28,244
♪ Here come bad news
Talking this and that ♪
2085
01:35:30,594 --> 01:35:32,335
♪ Yeah ♪
2086
01:35:32,727 --> 01:35:34,250
♪ Well, give me all you got
And don't hold it back ♪
2087
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:38,167
♪ Yeah ♪
2088
01:35:38,776 --> 01:35:40,212
♪ Well, I should probably
Warn you I'll be just fine ♪
2089
01:35:42,649 --> 01:35:44,086
♪ Yeah ♪
2090
01:35:44,477 --> 01:35:46,784
♪ No offense to you
Don't waste your time ♪
2091
01:35:47,132 --> 01:35:48,133
♪ Here's why ♪
2092
01:35:48,307 --> 01:35:50,179
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2093
01:35:50,440 --> 01:35:53,922
♪ Clap along if you feel
Like a room without a roof ♪
2094
01:35:54,096 --> 01:35:55,967
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2095
01:35:56,141 --> 01:35:59,971
♪ Clap along if you feel like Happiness is the truth ♪
2096
01:36:00,145 --> 01:36:01,973
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2097
01:36:02,234 --> 01:36:05,803
♪ Clap along if you know
What happiness is to you ♪
2098
01:36:05,977 --> 01:36:07,805
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2099
01:36:08,066 --> 01:36:12,027
♪ Clap along if you feel Like that's what you wanna do ♪
2100
01:36:12,201 --> 01:36:13,550
♪ Hey, uh ♪
2101
01:36:13,724 --> 01:36:16,466
♪ Bring me down
Can't nothin' ♪
2102
01:36:16,858 --> 01:36:18,468
♪ Bring me down ♪
2103
01:36:18,642 --> 01:36:21,166
♪ My level is too high
To bring me down ♪
2104
01:36:21,340 --> 01:36:23,821
♪ Can't nothin'
Bring me down ♪
2105
01:36:23,995 --> 01:36:25,736
♪ I said
Let me tell you now, uh ♪
2106
01:36:26,084 --> 01:36:28,521
♪ Bring me down
Can't nothin' ♪
2107
01:36:28,783 --> 01:36:30,175
♪ Bring me down ♪
2108
01:36:30,349 --> 01:36:33,048
♪ Can't nothin'
Bring me down, I said ♪
2109
01:36:33,222 --> 01:36:35,180
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2110
01:36:35,354 --> 01:36:39,054
♪ Clap along if you feel
Like a room without a roof ♪
2111
01:36:39,228 --> 01:36:41,099
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2112
01:36:41,273 --> 01:36:45,103
♪ Clap along if you feel Like happiness is the truth ♪
2113
01:36:45,364 --> 01:36:47,192
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2114
01:36:47,453 --> 01:36:50,935
♪ Clap along if you know
What happiness is to you ♪
2115
01:36:51,109 --> 01:36:53,024
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
2116
01:36:53,198 --> 01:36:57,072
♪ Clap along if you feel Like that's what you wanna do ♪
2117
01:36:57,637 --> 01:36:58,551
♪ Come on ♪
2118
01:36:59,683 --> 01:37:02,729
Be happy, everybody, happy.
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