John Lewis said: “When I was growing up on the farm, it was my responsibility to care for the chickens. I used to take the little chickens and put them all together in a chicken yard, and I would preach to these chickens. And some of these chickens would bow their heads, some of these chickens would shake their heads. They never quite said “amen,” but when I looked back on it though, the chickens that I preached to in the 40s and the 50s tended to listen to me much better than some of my colleagues listen to me today in the Congress.”