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"For months, even for years, through seven sessions of Congress, I wondered, what would bring this body to take action?" Lewis said while Democrats slowly surrounded him at the microphone. "We have lost hundreds and thousands of innocent people to gun violence. Tiny little children. Babies. Students. And teachers. Mother and fathers. Sisters and brothers. Daughters and sons. Friends and neighbors. And what has this body done? Mr. Speaker, not one thing...Where is our soul? Where is our courage?"
A hero then. A hero now. Watch 76-year-old John Lewis launch today's historic protest on the House floor: