Sunday, March 1, 2020

Suffering from pancreatic cancer, civil rights icon John Lewis returns to Edmund Pettus Bridge



Despite suffering from Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, returned to Selma, Alabama to observe the 55th anniversary of the voting rights march that resulted in his being brutally beaten.

"I thought I was going to die on this bridge" Lewis said. "But somehow, some way, God Almighty kept me here.

"We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith. Keep our eyes on the prize and vote like we've never ever voted before."

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