Rep. Val Demings remembers the legacy of Rep. John Lewis: 'I was in awe of him as a young child growing up in the 60s ... but I was also in awe of him until the day he died.' 'It will never be the same in the House of Representatives without John Lewis.'
"I know that if he was still with us, he would be leading that fight," Bass said of the Georgia congressman who died Friday.
"What we have to do is live up to his legacy. We need to continue that fight for social justice. And again, the first thing we need to do is to pass the voting rights act and get it signed," Bass told ABC's"This Week" Co-anchor Martha Raddatz."John Lewis has left us a great roadmap. And if we can continue to be half of the servant fighting for social justice that John Lewis was, then we're going to be OK.
In this screengrab, Rep. Val Demmings speaks during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 31, 2020. In this screengrab, Rep. Val Demmings speaks during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 31, 2020.In December, House Democrats passed the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, which would restore certain key protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act against racial discrimination that the Supreme Court struck down in 2013.
“I have said this before, and I will say it again. The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy,” Lewis said in a
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