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John Lewis, accepting the 2016 Elie Wiesel Award, tells the story of the Freedom Summer murders and Black-Jewish solidarity, and quotes A. Philip Randolph: "Maybe our foremothers and forefathers all came to this great land in different ships, but we are all in the same boat now.”
John Lewis, Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews: "Tell Mr Gorbachev to open the doors, open the gates: Let the people out. As long as one Jew is denied the right to emigrate, as long as one Jew is denied the right to be Jewish in the Soviet Union, we all are Jews in the Soviet Union."
John Lewis, from his memoir: "I remember how it stung me when I heard people say the things about [a Jew]—the same kinds of things they said about us...I felt a kinship with the children of Israel. I could see their struggle was very similar to ours. I never lost that feeling."
![John Lewis, from his memoir: "I remember how it stung me when I heard people say the things about [a Jew]—the same kinds of things they said about us...I felt a kinship with the children of Israel. I could see their struggle was very similar to ours. I never lost that feeling."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdQVV9SWAAEx6RC.jpg "John Lewis, from his memoir: \"I remember how it stung me when I heard people say the things about [a Jew]—the same kinds of things they said about us...I felt a kinship with the children of Israel. I could see their struggle was very similar to ours. I never lost that feeling.\"")
The music and words that inspired John Lewis, from the spiritual, "Go Down, Moses":
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let my people go
Oppress'd so hard they could not stand
Let my people go
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt's land
Tell old Pharaoh
Let my people go
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Thank you.
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let my people go
Oppress'd so hard they could not stand
Let my people go
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt's land
Tell old Pharaoh
Let my people go
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Thank you.
