John Lewis, We Want Our Freedom Now

It Was Said

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History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Ep 9: A twenty three year old John Lewis, speaking at the March On Washington, calls a nation to moral account. He didn’t want to be patient, he said. He wanted freedom now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	See 13 originals.
0:06.3	Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to
0:10.7	two thirds.
0:12.3	So one family outing at a time, one little adventurer to time, one trip to the museum,
0:19.6	one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time.
0:24.8	One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.
0:29.6	When will you take your next trip?
0:32.0	Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener.
0:42.2	He knew how to preach.
0:44.3	He'd been doing it since he was just a kid, a sharecropper son on a tenant farm in Pike
0:49.4	County, Alabama in the 1940s.
0:53.2	John Robert Lewis had honed his speaking style to a congregation of the family's chickens,
0:59.1	learning to manage a stutter as he shared the word of God with a tiny flock of feathered
1:04.6	creatures.
1:06.4	Now less than two decades later, he'd be preaching to a nation.
1:12.3	Standing in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, August 28, 1963, John Lewis
1:18.2	was the youngest speaker on the program with the March on Washington for jobs and freedom.
1:23.6	A landmark in the mid-century movement for civil rights and equal justice.
1:30.6	The program must go down and stop.
1:34.7	We will not stop all of the forces of East London, Barnett, Wallace and Thurman.
1:40.9	We will not stop this revolution.
1:47.9	We do not get meaningful legislation out of this Congress.
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