Repost from @agirlhasnopresident • “My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.” John Lewis was 21 years old in 1961 when he became one of the original 13 Freedom Riders, who fought to integrate buses in the south. He was the first Freedom Rider to be assaulted. He was 23 years old when he was the 4th (and youngest) speaker at the March on Washington in 1963, for jobs and freedom. He was the only listed speaker who lived to see a black man inaugurated as President. He was 25 when he walked Across the Edmund Pettis bridge, in Selma Alabama in 1965, and received a skull fracture as payment for wanting voting rights for black folks. Imagine where we would be if these things had never happened. He got in the way. Get in the way. If you haven’t been to these places, I suggest that you go. And take your babies with you. #TeachThem #Courage #JohnLewis https://www.instagram.com/p/CCzNFcjllROcx2rd7P09aTfNK_XyDZLy0xciJ40/?igshid=1sq0k9zlyhfe9