Together We can Redeem Our Soul of America by Autumn Apperson https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x John Lewis F Block en-us 2020-09-14 00:28:03 UTC 2025-10-17 15:06:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Post Your John Lewis Quote apperson https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/742387037 Explain Why you chose it. ]]> 2020-09-14 00:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/742387037 apperson https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/742389040 2020-09-14 00:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/742389040 "I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on." schwalbachs3 https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748995210 I thought this was interesting because John Lewis acknowledges the pause in protesting in the time between the original civil rights movement with Dr. King and the current era. Between now and then, the protesting of inequality for black people in America seemed to pause.]]> 2020-09-15 17:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748995210 "The way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748996127 2020-09-15 17:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748996127 "Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748996828 The part of the quote that stood out to me was the death of Emmett Till happened in 1955. In 2020 we are still having the same problems from over 60 years ago.]]> 2020-09-15 17:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748996828 "Though I was surrounded by two loving parents, plenty of brothers, sisters and cousins, their love could not protect me from the unholy oppression waiting just outside that family circle." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748997832 2020-09-15 17:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748997832 "Fear constrained us like an imaginary prison, and troubling thoughts of potential brutality committed for no understandable reason were the bars." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748998072 This quote stood out to me because it gave me a clear vision of what it is like for people facing this. The idea that their life is full of fear and that the fear that they feel is like a prison is sickening and so utterly disheartening. Fear should push you do learn and to grow not to feel constrained and confused. The metaphor / connection to the jail helped me realize on a deeper level just how they felt and how it affects them directly. 
 

]]> 2020-09-15 17:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748998072 "Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748999076 I chose this quote because I thought that this really demonstrated the goal of protests and all this effort to make a change, and very eloquently states what is necessary in order to make the change that we are looking to make.
-Cyrus ]]> 2020-09-15 17:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/748999076 "The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it." https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/749005887 This quote stood out to me because I think that many people think that voting is a guarantee every 4 years, but then people come into power who can change those rules, and I believe that as long as everyone still had their own voice, we can prevent losing our right to vote. ]]> 2020-09-15 17:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/apperson/lh45fp0mmzd9k90x/wish/749005887