“If something is just, you don’t put it off. You always demand the here and now and continue to push.”
In an interview John Lewis offers advice from his civil rights era experience for the LBGT community and all struggles for justice– good advice whether we are pushing for rights for human beings, education that matters or the health and well being of our planet and all that are part of it.
In case you don’t want to click on the link above and read the whole interview, here is his last thought:
Lewis concedes that the American public has a distance to go before arriving at what he often refers to as “the beloved community, where we respect the dignity and worth of every human being. As a nation and a people, we must get there. But we will get there,” he says.