Lewis found himself a confessor to those repenting of racism. Even in his later years, Lewis said he felt no bitterness toward the people who hurt, arrested and jailed him during the civil rights era https://www.ajc.com/news/lewis-found-himself-a-confessor-to-those-repenting-of-racism/IJJUE52NP5D7VG4SI3BKYIL3SM/ #gapol

John Lewis was an early advocate of gay rights, years before many fellow African Americans and Democrats embraced the issue. He equated it to the struggle for civil rights https://www.ajc.com/news/john-lewis-saw-in-gay-rights-a-movement-like-civil-rights/D6H4JK5MAJHHNB3VGTNWKRWIGU/ #gapol

During six decades in public life, John Lewis made peace with some of the most notorious opponents of the civil rights movement, but in 2017, he drew a line at the most powerful man in America. He and President Trump never buried the hatchet https://www.ajc.com/news/obituaries/lewis-vs-trump-antagonist-until-the-end/LGGXDWNMM5BHNHAKDZZCJOA6PM/ #gapol