A True Giant

View this post on Instagram

RIP Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights pioneer.⁣ ⁣ President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009, and said in introducing him.⁣ ⁣ "Born and raised in Jim Crow Alabama, preaching in his blood, the Reverend Joseph Lowery is a giant of the Moses generation of civil rights leaders. ⁣ ⁣ It was just King, Lowery, and a few others, huddled in Montgomery, who laid the groundwork for the bus boycott and the movement that was to follow. ⁣ ⁣ A founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Lowery was later asked to serve as President. He agreed to serve for one year, but wound up serving, as he puts it, for 20 one-year terms.⁣ ⁣ Throughout his life, some have called him crazy. But one of my favorite sermons that I heard Dr. Lowery once deliver, he said: 'There's good crazy and there's bad crazy -- and sometimes you need a little bit of that good crazy to make the world a better place.’”⁣ ⁣ Amen.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on Mar 28, 2020 at 8:21am PDT