I met John Lewis one night. Our little gang of radicals at the cow college I went to had gotten our guy elected as "Coordinator of Campus Speaers." Among the people who came the next year was John Lewis. I remember his speech 54 years later like it was yesterday. Achievement of the "beloed community" would make life better for all.
I met John Lewis one night. Our little gang of radicals at the cow college I went to had gotten our guy elected as "Coordinator of Campus Speaers." Among the people who came the next year was John Lewis. I remember his speech 54 years later like it was yesterday. Achievement of the "beloed community" would make life better for all.
After the speech, we invited him to the coffeehouse we had established and talked all night. He spoke of politics thus: "If you get involved in politics, your job is to work yourself out of a job, to represent the people and educate them to where they control their lives." Fifteen years later I left professional politics when I realized what I was promoting was the opposite. He made a career of politics, but was never a "careerist."
I'm not only non-religious, I am anti-religious. but I believe in Saints. And I have met a few. Not the kind even Pope Francis would nominate, but truly Saints. My definition of that is a person whose life is a measuring stick against which we measure ourselves to know how far we have to go to be the person we want to be.
I met John Lewis one night. Our little gang of radicals at the cow college I went to had gotten our guy elected as "Coordinator of Campus Speaers." Among the people who came the next year was John Lewis. I remember his speech 54 years later like it was yesterday. Achievement of the "beloed community" would make life better for all.
After the speech, we invited him to the coffeehouse we had established and talked all night. He spoke of politics thus: "If you get involved in politics, your job is to work yourself out of a job, to represent the people and educate them to where they control their lives." Fifteen years later I left professional politics when I realized what I was promoting was the opposite. He made a career of politics, but was never a "careerist."
I'm not only non-religious, I am anti-religious. but I believe in Saints. And I have met a few. Not the kind even Pope Francis would nominate, but truly Saints. My definition of that is a person whose life is a measuring stick against which we measure ourselves to know how far we have to go to be the person we want to be.
John Lewis is a Saint.
I love this line about educating people so you work yourself out of a job. What a lovely remembrance.
Yes. Part of philosophy of education, teach myself out of a job”!
AMEN. And thank you, Thomas. I'm saving this.