Civil rights leader and Democratic Georgia Congressmember John Lewis has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Congressmember Lewis is a civil rights legend. In 1965, he was beaten almost to death by Alabama state troopers as he attempted to lead a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. On Sunday, Lewis vowed to continue his work in Congress, and said, “I have been in some kind of fight — for freedom, equality, basic human rights — for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now.”