John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson·TED Legacy Project
The fight civil rights and freedom
Summary
The interview was recorded in November 2019. The speaker, John Robert Lewis,
was an American politician, a civil-rights leader, and not only worked for
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee but also spent his life
fighting for freedom and justice for everyone.
He died this July. I've just seen the news that his body covered with the American
flag crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge before reading the article. The bridge
is known as Bloody Sunday.
In the past, there was violence to fight civil rights and freedom, however,
Dr. King had taught him to love while enduring some of the brutalities. It
requires the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence that are to
respect the dignity and the worth of every human being and never give up on
anyone. The speaker's work must be redemption to tell the history.
Two black men were told in this story. The fight is continuing. As a
society, still, there is something that the country hasn’t embraced. They
also said that they haven’t really wanted to acknowledge the legacy of
slavery and the history of lynching and segregation. People want to skip
over the apology part. This is the most shocking story for me as a Japanese,
so...
We have to reject something with courage and respect when we face it that
was wrong. It’s not resistance, not hatred, and not ignoring, but it's for
our civil rights and freedom. We have to catch it with our own hands. It's
not given.
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