And at every stop, through the night, apparently the angry driver stormed out of the bus and into the bus station. But embedded in this document was a North Star that would guide future generations; a system of representative government — a democracy — through which we could better realize our highest ideals. Former President Barack Obama delivered a scathing speech on the campaign trail on Wednesday, rebuking President Donald Trump.

I’ll admit that it’s a little unfair to lay such a heavy burden on you, I wish that my generation had done more to solve some of our country’s big problems, so you didn’t have to. I’ve seen that same spirit rising these past few years. Well, here’s the point: this president and those in power — those who benefit from keeping things the way they are — they are counting on your cynicism. While demonstrating at times that he hadn't lost his quick wit or cultural relevancy—Obama joked about how his "big ears" looked under his own graduation cap, the added in a reference to the viral Netflix show Tiger King—the looming public health crisis, and advising seniors on how to make the most of this moment, was rightfully his main focus. America was built by John Lewises.
Kyle A. Valenta is the managing editor of COURIER. This was months before the first official Freedom Rides. Former President Barack Obama delivered a scathing speech on the campaign trail on Wednesday, rebuking President Donald Trump.

Make a plan right now for how you’re going to get involved and vote. That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts — that’s who Joe is. Once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, we should keep marching to make it even better.

I know his staff was stressed. You can see that love in all the amazing ways that families have come up with their own at-home graduations. Not by avoiding our responsibilities to create a better America and a better world, but by embracing those responsibilities with joy and perseverance and discovering that in our beloved community, we do not walk alone. As a Congressman, he didn’t rest; he kept getting himself arrested. That’s not necessarily a mystery or an accident. But he pushed all twenty of those years to the center of the table, betting everything, all of it, that his example could challenge centuries of convention, and generations of brutal violence, and countless daily indignities suffered by African Americans.
Looking every bit that shy, serious child that his mother had raised and yet, he is full of purpose. It vindicated the faith in our founding, redeemed that faith, that most American of ideas. And the consequences of that failure are severe. That same year, just weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of interstate bus facilities was unconstitutional, John and Bernard Lafayette bought two tickets, climbed aboard a Greyhound, sat up front, and refused to move. Last month, we lost a giant of American democracy in John Lewis. And if all this takes eliminating the filibuster — another Jim Crow relic — in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that’s what we should do.

With all the challenges this country faces right now, nobody can tell you "oh you're too young to understand," or "this is how it's always been done." He as much as anyone in our history brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals.