Sunday Reflections: Greater words than ours

by Heather Booth | Blogs
Jan 15, 2017 | Filed in Blogs
This week, TLT is taking a break from its usual Sunday Reflections. Instead of reading our words, please take a moment reading or listening to words from The Honorable John Lewis’s long career. Here is his  “Speech at the March on Washington” from August 28, 1963 when he was 23 years old. You can view the speech […]

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This week, TLT is taking a break from its usual Sunday Reflections. Instead of reading our words, please take a moment reading or listening to words from The Honorable John Lewis’s long career.

Here is his  “Speech at the March on Washington” from August 28, 1963 when he was 23 years old.

You can view the speech below.

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