Former Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young remembers meeting a young John Lewis and trying to put his finger on what made him special.
“He was not the kind of firebrand that we expected our leaders to be,” Young said. “But there was a quiet power about him.”
And, Young says, Lewis had courage.
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