Late last night, we learned our hero and friend Congressman John Lewis left this life to live his next great chapter. He was 8O years old.

We’re finding it difficult to distill Mr. Lewis’s inimitable legacy into a short email this morning, but as we’re reflecting, we wanted to share the moments he inspired us with over recent years:

Four summers ago, we steeled our resolve when we watched Mr. Lewis take a seat on the House floor and demand real change to end preventable gun violence in our country.

We’ll cherish the moments Mr. Lewis visited us at HQ to share his powerful story. And the sincerity we heard in his voice when he demanded we do everything we could to reach every single Democratic voter.

We’re grateful to Mr. Lewis for traveling the country to visit churches and community centers with our Democratic candidates, many of whom now make up our House Majority.

And above all, we’ll remember Mr. Lewis’ legacy as a son of sharecroppers born in Troy, Alabama, who organized the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A young man who befriended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and whose skull was fractured after they descended the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma together.

Since the Sixties, Mr. Lewis was arrested more than 4O times by his count in displays of his very salient brand of good trouble. Even as a sitting Congressman, he found himself with zip ties around his wrists after standing up for all of us.

Losing civil rights icons like John Lewis and C.T. Vivian during a global health crisis and a national reckoning on race devastates all of us. But we know they would find it unwise to despair, become hopeless or bitter, and simply give up.

We’re going to do everything we can to get in the way, to make a way out of no way, to stand up and, if necessary, to sit down.

Yours in sorrow,

-All of us at the DCCC













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