'He lived with a never-ending desire to help others. He often told us, ‘If you see something wrong, do something,'' Rosa Tyner, Rep. John Lewis' sister, said at a memorial to honor the life of the longtime Georgia congressman in Alabama on Saturday.
"It’s up to us to keep his legacy alive," the boy said.
“When the clouds would come over the sun, he would start singing and preaching," she said."And there’s a song he would always start with: ‘There’s a dark cloud arising, let’s go home. Let’s go home.'"
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