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#Barack Obama delivers eulogy at Rep. John Lewis’ funeral

#Barack Obama delivers eulogy at Rep. John Lewis’ funeral

July 30, 2020 | 2:32pm

Former President Barack Obama delive​red the eulogy at Rep. John Lewis’ funeral Thursday afternoon, the nation’s first African American president saying he owed a “great debt” to the civil rights icon.

The 44th president followed speeches from former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“I’ve come here today because I like so many Americans owe a great debt to John Lewis, and his forceful vision of freedom,” the former commander-in-chief said at the beginning of his eulogy.

“Now this country is a constant work in progress. We’re born with instructions to form a more perfect union, and explicit in those words is the idea that we’re imperfect,” he continued, “What gives each new generation purpose is to take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further than any might have thought possible.”

Lewis, Obama said, was “a mentor to young people, including me at the time — until his final day on this earth, he not only embraced that responsibility, but he made it his life’s work.”

The Georgia Congressman died earlier this month from stage 4 pancreatic cancer at the age of 80. He had been diagnosed in December of last year.

First elected in 1986 and lauded as “the conscience of Congress,” Lewis, a staunch Democrat, commanded respect from both sides of the aisle.

The memorial service of late U.S. Congressman John Lewis in Atlanta

People watch Barack Obama on a screen outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church during the memorial service of late U.S. Congressman John Lewis in Atlanta, Georgia today.

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Funeral at Ebeneezer Baptist Church of U.S. Congressman John Lewis in Atlanta

Obama delivering John Lewis’ eulogy.

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Funeral at Ebeneezer Baptist Church of U.S. Congressman John Lewis in Atlanta

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He forged his reputation in the 1960s, most notably during the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, during which he suffered a skull fracture at the end of a police billy club.

“There is still work yet to be done,” he urged during a 50th-anniversary event at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 2015. The bridge is where the march, now referred to as “Bloody Sunday,” took place.

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