The fight for civil rights and freedom | John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Civil rights leader and longtime US congressman John Lewis spent his life fighting for freedom and justice for everyone. In this illuminating conversation with lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson, Lewis discusses the essential importance of voting, shares encouraging words of wisdom for the generation of young people currently organizing in the struggle for racial justice and tells moving stories from his decades of making "good trouble" -- at the Freedom Rides, March on Washington and in the halls of Congress. "When you see something that's not right or fair or just, you have to say something," Lewis says. "You have to do something." (This conversation is part of the TED Legacy Project. Recorded November 19, 2019)

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hu.
0:06.4	Today we have a moving and powerful special episode from the TED Legacy Project.
0:10.7	It features reflections from the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.
0:15.9	He's in conversation with lawyer and activist Brian Stevenson.
0:20.2	Lewis recounts growing up in rural Alabama,
0:23.2	his years using nonviolent approaches in the struggle for civil rights, and his thoughts on the
0:28.3	unfinished work that's now left for the rest of us to take on. John Lewis is such a towering
0:34.0	figure, and this is a conversation you won't forget.
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1:13.2	This is such a great honor for me to be in this room with you to have this conversation.
1:19.5	I can't tell you what it means to me to have this opportunity.
1:24.4	You represent something so precious to so many of us. And I just wanted to start
1:30.2	by thanking you for that, for your willingness to wrap your arms around people like me,
1:36.2	and to make me think that it's possible to do difficult things, important things. And I just
1:42.5	want to start by asking you to talk a little bit about
1:47.2	that experience of growing up in rural Alabama and the Black Belt of America and how that
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