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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

John Lewis on "March" and Getting Into Righteous Trouble to Fight Injustice

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

From 2016, Representative John Lewis weighs in on the Black Lives Matter movement and discusses his experience at Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington in "March: Book Three."

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.6

We're here with Congressman Lewis, John Lewis, who is talking to us about his new book,

0:09.8

March, a powerful book, a powerful life you've lived, inspiration through and through.

0:15.3

People talk about the Black Lives Matter movement all the time and say, that's not something

0:19.0

Martin Luther King would have done.

0:20.5

That's not how he would have handled it.

0:21.8

Martin Luther King wouldn't be proud.

0:23.1

You knew Martin Luther King, Jr.

0:25.1

You were out there marching.

0:26.5

And you see Black Lives Matter, what are the things that you commend and I guess then

0:30.4

afterwards we'll talk about what are the things where you think they can improve?

0:33.5

For many of the young people that have taken part in the Black Lives Matter movement,

0:39.2

a reading march, we had a young lady in Louisiana who read the book and she emerged as

0:47.4

one of the leaders there.

0:49.4

She marched.

0:51.4

She got arrested and went to jail.

0:54.8

So when the police officer murdered, when the young man was murdered, she had a vigil

1:03.8

for the young Black man and for the police officers.

1:10.8

March is a blueprint.

1:13.4

It is a roadmap.

1:15.4

It's for now.

1:16.9

It is for the future.

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