Today, Congressman John Lewis is being remembered by countless leaders and celebrities across social media
from Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who said, in part:"John Lewis was a titan of the civil rights movement whose goodness, faith and bravery transformed our nation—from the determination with which he met discrimination at lunch counters and on Freedom Rides, to the courage he showed as a young man facing down violence and death on Edmund Pettus Bridge, to the moral leadership he brought to the Congress for more than 30 years.
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