That's what John Lewis was doing the next year, in 1965, marching across that bridge wasn't doing it for himself. He was doing it to give the President the power to force his hand. In 2018, during the first Trump administration, you all remember that our government, under his leadership, but in our name, was separating families who arrived at the southern border. That young mother with the 2 year old child in her arms who just braved 2000 miles to get to refuge because if she had stayed back in Honduras or … (53:38–53:50)
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