Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights icon who had his skull fractured by police when he led a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago, said on Sunday that there was a direct connection between that march and President Barack Obama.
“I don’t think as a group we had any idea that our marching feet would have such an impact 50 years later,” Lewis said in an interview on “Face The Nation.”
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“Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made,” Lewis said. “When people tell me nothing has changed, I just feel like saying, ‘Come and walk in my shoes. I will show you. I will take you to those places.'”
